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...think [the election] should be open and out front," said HRAAA member Herbert Gleason, who received Malkin's letter. "I'm not at all complaining about people's being committed to their cause...
...administration are very concerned that the dissident petition slate of five candidates, headed by Bishop Tutu, may play havoc with, the administration of Harvard unless more than the usual effort is made to encourage the election of candidates selected for nomination through the normal channels," Malkin wrote in the letter...
...University has traditionally remained neutral in overseer elections. Malkin's letter marks the first campaigning by an HAA affiliate or University official since President Derek C. Bok authorized a mailing endorsing the official slate two years...
...That letter, written by former Overseers Chair Joan T. Bok '51, no relation, drew strong criticism. University officials have since said they did not want to "politicize" annual overseer elections...
...Malkin's letter comes a month after a pro-divestment group, Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA), nominated Tutu and four others for the Board. For the last four years, HRAAA has nominated its own slate of candidates in an effort to force a vote on the University's remaining $168 million invested in South African related businesses...