Word: seidman
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...There have been several major issues going on on campus this year in which the decision rested with the president or the [Overseers] Executive Committee, and these have revealed in some ways the way in which power is centralized in the University," said Overseer Gay W. Seidman '73, who was elected on an alternative slate of pro-divestment candidates...
Beginning three years ago, Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (AAA) used petitions to offer candidates against the traditional University-sponsored slate of 10; five overseers are elected each year, for six-year terms. Seidman was elected in 1986. Last year, Peter H. Wood '64 and Consuela M. Washington of the HRAAA slate joined Seidman on the Board...
Recently, ativists have sought access to the committee. Seidman, who is a sociology doctoral candidate researching a dissertation on South Africa, said she hoped that either she or Thomas would have the opportunity to make a presentation to the joint committee. Seidman said if they were not invited, the panel should hear from South African exiles. "It's upsetting to me that there's no one on the committee who knows anything about South Africa or about the region. They're going to have to learn a lot of basic things...
...Seidman '78, one of three overseers elected from a divestment slate, introduced the motion from the floor, couching it in language that acknowledged the newly formed committee, which she had opposed earlier in the meeting...
...America's 14,300 banks, killing hundreds of small institutions and stunting the growth of larger ones. Earlier this month federal regulators closed nine insolvent banks in a single day; during all of 1987 they expect to shut down nearly 200, a post-Depression record. Says L. William Seidman, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC): "The banking industry will have its worst year since...