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...HRAAA mission was not unprecedented.Student activists had for years battled withHarvard administrators over the social and moralimplications of the University's investments. Atone point, in 1986, their protest included theconstruction of a shantytown that filled HarvardYard for several months...
What made HRAAA different, though, was itsmembers' determination to fight the University onits own terms, from the top down. By nominatingcandidates for election to the University's Boardof Overseers--one of two top governing boards atHarvard--HRAAA's leaders hoped to force Harvard tochange...
...first, it seemed as though the new group wasdestined to have some impact. In 1985, Gay Seidman'78 became the first of four HRAAA-sponsoredcandidates to be elected to the Board ofOverseers...
...last spring, HRAAA's efforts had fizzledout and the group had virtually ceased to exist.HRAAA lost its last remaining representatives onthe Board of Overseers when the six-year terms of1973 Law School graduate Consuela M. Washingtonand Duke Professor Peter H. Wood '64 expired...
Harvard administrators say the reduction waspart of their long-term policy of "selectivedivestment" and had nothing to do with HRAAA'sefforts...