Word: theboard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Divestment activists say the University's"hostile" attitude toward the anti-apartheid slaterepresents a Tacit acknowledgement that politicsare playing an increasingly large role in theBoard's composition: welcome...
...divestment issue will not change theBoard's role in serving the University, saysoverseer Peter C. Goldmark Jr. '62. The Board'smain function is to send visiting committees toreport on Harvard's various departments andfaculties...
...even Sideman says she believes theOverseers functions most effectively in itsadvisory role. "The role of the overseers ispretty subtle. I don't think most people on theBoard would want major eruptions. I think theoverseers are much better at raising question thatin working in other ways...
...been more than 30 years since the Boardand the corporation have stood in direct conflict,as they would on the divestment issue if AAA hadits way. When Warburg professor of EconomicsEmeritus John Kenneth Galbraith's tenurenomination arrived on the overseers, desks, theBoard balked saying he was communist. Although theproposed tenure had been successfully sent throughnormal channels, awaiting only the Board'scustomary approval, members agreed to exercisetheir long-standing right to deny facultyappointments. The administration was appalled...
Board members said the CRB has not yet receivedformal complaints because few people, includingthose who pushed for its creation, are aware theboard is ready to investigate cases. Graham, whosaid she had not known the board would meettonight, predicted that complaints would flow inas soon as the CRB advertised its presence...