Word: steiner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel for the University, said yesterday Bok planned no major announcements for the March 12 meeting. "We're not meeting on any specific issues," Steiner said, adding that South African investments would probably be another topic addressed...
...Steiner said the meeting with CHUL is not a reaction to the SASC demands. "That letter didn't arrive until Monday," Steiner said, adding," this CHUL meeting was in the works before that...
...Steiner predicted Bok would make a few remarks on various issues before the meeting began. "I don't know that he has any particular agenda worked out yet," Steiner said...
...profit and supposedly moral institution like Harvard. Yet, although the Corporation publicly refuses to apply political or moral criteria to its donors, Bok and the members of the Corporation do negotiate with and even reject the bearers of certain politically questionable gifts, albeit only in extreme cases. For example, Steiner this week revealed Bok's previously undisclosed rejection of a large donation from a "rather repressive government that seemed to be trying to use Harvard to gain legitimacy...
Harvard also negotiates the terms of donations. In 1971, the Corporation accepted $1 million to endow a chair in Korean studies from the Korean Traders Association, a quasi-governmental business group that practices the Tongsun Park style of public relations. Steiner said when the Koreans began dictating that its newly purchased professorship teach only economics, Harvard balked until the KTA agreed to leave educational decisions to the Faculty...