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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...must have seemed a bit pointless; he already knew--if only from the Corporation's open hearing on the subject--that students feel strongly about Harvard's links to South Africa, and this ugly scene did little more than reinforce that sense. As he zigzagged across Mass Ave, pressed onward by chanting students who had already barred his entrance to Mass Hall, he must have wondered what he had done to deserve this fate. At which point, apparently, he reached that much-repeated conclusion, "It's just another day in the life of a university president...
...possible, of course, that Bok declined to discuss his views on the subject of American companies in southern Africa because he does not believe this particular group of students would have deemed them acceptable. He did not bother to repeat at the Corporation's open hearing a statement he made at two less formal meetings with undergraduates in the Houses--that he finds it "charming" that undergraduates think they can influence corporations. Certainly, that statement would not have elicited polite applause form the people who followed Bok across the Yard Monday. It would have been impolitic, at best, to throw...
...that caught onlookers' attention. The content--the fact that Bok himself initiated the confrontation and the fact that students have been moderate and reasonable throughout the South Africa demonstrations--seems to have gotten lost in the maelstrom. So long as the University administration continues to refuse to engage in open dialogue, acts born of student frustration will continue...
...offense was passing well--every goal was assisted--and Faught was left open by the sliding Wildcat defense. He's the scorer in the Crimson offense and UNH gave him room to work. "When we're done with what we're supposed to do, I'm one-on-one on the goalie," Faught said after the game...
...Writing a novel is like writing an exam on which your whole life depends, every night for a year," poet and novelist May Sarton, inaugural speaker at the Open Forum, told an audience of over 450 last night at Cronkhite Graduate Center...