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The committee was formed to discuss the divestment question after a pro-divestment overseer called on the Board to vote on the issue last year. The Board traditionally acts as an advisory body for the Corporation, which manages Harvard's investment policy, giving its opinion only when asked.
The Corporation should listen to the opinions of students, faculty and support staff, but these groups should not have a say in the selection of Corporation members. Students, most of whom are uninterested and uninformed about the Corporation, can express their views after they graduate. And while University employees should...
WHILE the process of choosing successors must be watched carefully, it's important not to lose sight of a more significant issue: University governance. Right now, the Corporation has the sole power to choose its own members, without having to consult alumni, students or faculty. It's time the University...
Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration. With the annual federal health-care tab at more than $140 billion and increasing at more than twice the rate of inflation, the overseer of Medicare and Medicaid will to , have to perform surgery to contain costs. Doctors are already howling over caps...
--I did not suggest to any Overseer that divestment is not a proper subject for discussion by the Overseers or that it should not be considered by them at their meeting last year. It is, in my view, an appropriate subject for discussion and advice to the Corporation. I did...