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...Counter was spoken to on Friday beforethat meeting. The chancellor, Murphy, spoke to himand said, `I'm going to forward your name to theBoard of Trustees for approval, will you acceptthe job?' The story is that he said `yes,'"Withers said. "When you get to the point that yourname is going to the board of trustees--that'salmost like a gentleman's agreement...
There has been confusion surrounding theappointment since the college, named for the slaincivil rights leader, announced two weeks ago thatCounter had accepted the post, after having beenunanimously selected to be its president by theBoard of Overseers of CUNY...
Counsel for the House Committee on Energy andCommerce Consuela M. Washington, another newlyelected Overseer, said Steiner told her in aJanuary meeting in Washington, D.C. that "theBoard was not set up to fully discuss things andput forth binding votes. They don't want activism,they want us to only vote on things when asked toby the Corporation...
Washington, one of the three members of theBoard elected on a pro-divestment slate, said herdiscussions with Steiner touched on more than justthe divestment issue. But she added that they"discussed how to resolve the divestment issuewithout causing conflict with the Corporation,without taking a vote and presenting a Boardposition...
Wood said he thought there would be furtherdiscussion of the divestment issue at the meeting,but that he did not think it would focus on hisproposal. "I'm not aware that any suggestions I'vemade are going to be discussed further by theBoard," he said. Wood wrote his proposaldistributed at the December meeting in response toa request by Bok and Butler