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...Molyneux also attacks the notion that the University can remain "neutral" on issues such as divestment of holdings in companies linked with South Africa. And although Harvard claims it has little impact on the actions of other institutions, says Molyneux, President Bok's statements on South Africa and other issues always appear in The New York Times. The Boston Globe and even in the white South African press. "He uses publicity when he refuses student demands, not when Harvard takes one of its few steps to meet its social responsibility...
President Bok's open letters and recent collection of essays on the role of the university "create the impression that Harvard did indeed care about these important issues when in fact it didn't, "says Molyneux, adding that the new book attempts to take ad hoc decisions and justify them within a systematic framework. "Somehow every-time he thinks about a problem he comes to the conclusion that the status quo is right...
...Molyneux points to Bok's intervention in the long-running drive for unionization at the Medical School, by signing letters to employees suggesting they refuse to join a union. "I think he has a corporate outlook. He opposed the unionization of his own employees at the med school..That's obviously not neutrality...
...administration's policy is to oppose whatever student protesters suggest, on the grounds that they don't want to give in to student pressure. He concludes emphatically, "What emerges is a fairly conservative world view which is not neutral at all...He is playing a positively negative role," Molyneux says...
What kind of future does Guy Molyneux see for campus movements. He uses minority groups as example of the increased need for student unity. "The worst aspect of leftist politics on campus" is racial division. Molyneux says. "I don't share the feelings, but unfortunately people haven't sat down and realized white students are growing less susceptible to Black demands." Molyneux says Black students haven't made enough of an effort to break down perceptions of middle class Black students as just as privileged as their white counterparts at Harvard. "I would hope that in the next couple...