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University officials have long said HRAAA has unfairly defined the overseer campaign solely in terms of Harvard's $163.8 million in South Africa-related investments--an issue administrators say is not particularly important to the Board.
In addition, the choice of Overseer Peter C. Goldmark Jr. as the next Overseers president was rejected on a technicality earlier this year, apparently because he was too open to dissenting voices on the Board. This move and others have shown the Bok administration's unwillingness to tolerate disagreement among...
In a telephone interview yesterday, Kennedy, a former overseer, said that although he wrote the letter on his own iniative, Glimp referred him to the alumnus who eventually paid more than $9500 for its publication in the magazine, which is sent to all University alumni.
In June 1988, a sit-in at the office of Overseer Thomas L.P. O'Donnell '47 at the Boston law firm Ropes and Gray resulted in the arrest of 18 people, among whom were two Harvard undergraduates.
And though Tutu will likely win his bid, many play down the impact he would have as an overseer. Even HRAAA activists concede the South African political figure will be hard-pressed to attend the five annual overseer meetings in Cambridge.