Word: joans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Board of Overseers were to become a body made up of members elected primarily to press a particular policy, it would be a very different Board than it has been heretofore," Joan Bok said in her letter...
...consider the letter [by Joan Bok] to be inappropriate and undemocratic. The Board of Overseers is supposed to be administering this election in a fair and impartial manner. In a democratic society, the people administering the election don't instruct the voters how to vote, why or for whom," said "Alumni Against Apartheid" candidate John T. Plotz...
President Derek Bok said yesterday that Joan Bok wrote the letter on her own initiative. "The letter points out the issue involved in this election and that it is an important issue," the president said...
...letter, Joan Bok asks alumni to consider the proper role of the overseers, and how best that role can be fulfilled. She states that the board of overseers "does not have powers to set policies for the investment of Harvard's endowment" and that its mission "has been to encourage the University to maintain the highest attainable standards as a place of learning...
Tina E. Smith '83, founder and trustee of the Harvard Endowment for Divestiture, said: "The University must be very nervous or else they would not have had Joan T. Bok write this letter...