Word: joans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...afternoon Commencement ceremonies, University officials announce that Gay W. Seidman '78 snagged one of seven seats on Harvard's Board of Overseers. Seidman campaigned on a three-member divestment platform--despite a controversial letter from Overseers President Joan T. Bok '51 advising alumni not to vote for the state...
...were on turf last year and that was a huge factor," Northeastern Coach Joan Broderick said. "But the real story was--they struck, they scored and we lost...
...NATION, Sept. 8) has elicited just such an outpouring. In the two weeks since Mrs. Brauer's account of hardworking folk facing bankruptcy appeared, TIME and the Brauers have been deluged with phone calls and letters from strangers offering to help. "People are very concerned," reports TIME Letters Chief Joan Walsh. "I think that the Brauers' decency has obviously touched TIME readers...
Finally the University became embroiled in perhaps the largest controversy this year when it included a letter by Board of Overseers President Joan T. Bok '51 (no relation to Derek Bok) in the official election packet for that governing body, which is sent to all alumni. That letter criticized the campaign of three graduates running for the board by petition and on a pro-divestment platform. A blatant attempt to influence the election elicited strong protests from alumni. Yet, not only did the University officials defend their misguided attempt to tamper with an election, Derek Bok failed to present...
...letter by Joan Bok brings forward more than just issues of governance, it makes us wonder exactly what goes on behind the closed doors of our governing bodies. The University should not wait until alumni sue before it releases the minutes of Overseers meetings--it is a responsibility it owes all members of the community. Meetings of the governing bodies of Harvard need to be open. There should be no secrets at a university, because all of us are concerned with the same goal--education...