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Known by friends and student activists alike as "Dan Steiner," Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 has been Bok's "principal and most trusted advisor on student protest" for more than 20 years, says the outgoing president...

Author: By Maggie S. Tucker, | Title: After 20 Years of Harvard Protests, The Lawyer Behind the Lawyer to Step Down | 4/18/1991 | See Source »

...sharing counsel with Bok, Steiner has also shared some of his flak. Over the years, the general counsel has more than once been singled out by demonstrators as an opponent. Most notably, he is featured in the South African divestment chant, "Dan Steiner, get the word! This is not Johannesburg...

Author: By Maggie S. Tucker, | Title: After 20 Years of Harvard Protests, The Lawyer Behind the Lawyer to Step Down | 4/18/1991 | See Source »

Such attention, he says, has not bothered him. Steiner dismisses the accusations implicit in such chants--that he or Bok or Harvard is acting to help the apartheid government--as "pretty silly...

Author: By Maggie S. Tucker, | Title: After 20 Years of Harvard Protests, The Lawyer Behind the Lawyer to Step Down | 4/18/1991 | See Source »

...most part maintained a smooth political image, compared to his predecessor, Nathan M. Pusey '28, who is often remembered for sending Cambridge police clad in riot gear to forcibly eject protesters occupying University Hall in 1969. Since then, under Steiner's counsel, the Harvard administration has learned a thing or two about protests and public relations...

Author: By Maggie S. Tucker, | Title: After 20 Years of Harvard Protests, The Lawyer Behind the Lawyer to Step Down | 4/18/1991 | See Source »

Epps recalls the time that pro-divestment student protesters erected shanties in Harvard Yard in 1986. Bok sent Steiner to meet with Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57, Epps and police officials, and the group decided to leave the shanties standing, pending negotiations with the protesters. Several months later, the students agreed to remove the shanties...

Author: By Maggie S. Tucker, | Title: After 20 Years of Harvard Protests, The Lawyer Behind the Lawyer to Step Down | 4/18/1991 | See Source »

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