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More than 2000 students and 20 organizations signed on to a petition backing a measure very similar to the original resolution and delivered it Wednesday to Harvard administrators.
Fifty students from a variety of student organizations gathered in front of Mass Hall yesterday to urge the University to remain impartial in this May's union election, presenting President Bok with a petition favoring neutrality signed by more that 2000 students.
In her bid for the 30-member governing board, Craig joins 10 official University-nominated candidates, who include Iran-Contra Prosecutor Arthur L. Liman '54. A slate of five petition candidates, sponsored by Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA), is also running for the Board this year.
While petition candidates have run for the Board for the past two years, all have been pro-divestment candidates. Traditionally, candidates to the Board not nominated by the University are rare, in part because of the difficulty of obtaining the alumni signatures needed to qualify a candidate for the ballot...
Although petition candidates have run onpolitically-oriented platforms, Craig stressedthat her candidacy is not motivated by a singleissue. "I'm not running with any particular pointof view," said Craig. "I am running as anindividual [who wants] to devote time and energy"to issues that are of concern to the University...