Word: thealumni
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CCSR and its advisory committee divided onthe Exxon issue last spring, with thealumni-student-faculty board voting six to four toask the oil company to "cut all ties" with SouthAfrica. The CCSR abstained on the issue...
Their complaint also included charges thatHarvard was not fairly counting the ballots. Inthe 1986 election the University counted thealumni ballots on its own for a month and thenhired its accountant, Coopers and Lybrand, to dothe tally...
Tutu's vote of confidence will influence thealumni voters because he is "one of the mostmoderate of major black spokesmen and the mostwidely known internationally," said Wood...
...adds, "These are people who have reached outacross the world who have always had an influence.There's original spirit." Some of this originalspirit came across in the first few planningmeetings that Walker had with 350th officials. Hesays that he did run into a few problems with thealumni: "Some wanted a little more celebrity and alittle less history and some wanted a little morehistory and a little less celebrity...
Neither Raines or Montgomery mentions hissupport of divestment in the brief biographicalsketches adjacent to their photos in the electionpacket. South Africa and divestment were theprimary topics of the blurbs submitted by theAlumni Against Apartheid candidates...