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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THIS metaphor is at work in this University. The Corporation has gone beyond merely protecting Harvard from financial imprudence. President Bok generously states in his first letter that his opinions "are not the official views of the University." His statement is true. Bok may speak as an individual trying "to think through and resolve a difficult and important set of problems," but he acts as the head of the Corporation. He has effectively set himself up as the arbiter of moral truth for the University on this issue...
...conclusion of his second letter, Bok gives three reasons which condescendingly belittle the movement to divest Harvard of its holding in American companies operating in South Africa, as "an extraordinary proposition that would not receive serious consideration were it not for the passions that are so understandably aroused by apartheid and all its attendant injustices...
...would hope our negotiators and press people would play up this conflict of interest in the faculty having a hand in setting its own salaries. The public is highly sensitized to conflict of interest and these I believe to be useful words from the public relations standpoint," Silber's letter continues...
This week the Harvard Corporation called on the Timken Company to withdraw from South Africa. The decision followed the release of President Bok's second open letter that terms divestiture unjustifies and contends that the most effective way to alter corporate practices in South Africa is by voting on shareholder resolutions and communicating "in other ways with management...
...open letter, Bok stated divestiture would "cause the University to diver millions of dollars in pursuit of a strategy that is legally questionable, widely disputed on its merits and very likely to prove ineffective in achieving its objectives...