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Bok also defended Joan Bok's decision to send the letter with election ballots urging alumni not to change the way the Overseer body works and not to vote for the three alumni campaigning on a divestment slate.
Overseer candidates are normally selected by the alumni office, and their election is not usually contested by an outside slate.
A current member of the Board of Overseers was not optimistic about the group's chances. "I don't think someone committed to a platform could be very effective. Most people voting for the Board of Overseers try to get diversity, so I doubt many people will vote for them...
Seidman, who was the first woman president of The Crimson, is currently a graduate student in sociology at Berkeley. If elected she would be the youngest overseer ever to serve on the board
Theodore Chase '34, a former alumni member of the ACSR and an author of the Overseer report, said yesterday that the council's criticism of Bok is "silly. The president does not make appointments himself, but without exception approves the appointments of students, faculty and alumni. The president must reserve...