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THESE changes were largely targeted at defeating the group that nominated Tutu. Since 1986, alumni dissatisfied with Harvard's continuing attachments to the apartheid regime in South Africa have sought to elect candidates from the Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA) slate to the 30-member Board, which is elected by all University alumni...
Although the Board traditionally has acted as a formal rubber-stamp for the Corporation--the body that takes care of Harvard's day-to-day operation--HRAAA has hoped to elect enough overseers to force a Board vote on the University's South Africa-related investment policy. With Tutu, there are now four HRAAA overseers, as well as several Alumni Association overseers who have said they favor divestment...
...Crimson reports that Board of Overseers candidate Peter J. Malkin '55 wrote a letter cautioning against HRAAA's pro-divestment candidates...
...Crimson reports that University Vice President for Alumni Affairs Fred L. Glimp '50 helped Stanford President Donald Kennedy '52 to publish a letter in Harvard Magazine encouraging alumni not to vote for HRAAA's pro-divestment candidates...
...President Charles J. Egan '54 --who paid the $9500 to run Kennedy's letter as an advertisment in Harvard Magazine, harshly criticizes HRAAA's leaders and their slate of what he calls "single-issue candidates" for the Board of Overseers. HRAAA Executive Director Robert P. Wolff '54 calls the remarks "slanderous" and demands an apology...