Word: tutu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Frustrated with the high visibility of the campaign to elect South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu to the Board of Overseers, Harvard officials--themselves bound by a pledge of neutrality--have placed the political battle over University governance in the hands of the Harvard Alumni Assocation...
Specifically, administrators last month named two outspoken critics of Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA), the pro-divestment group which nominated Tutu, to head the umbrella organization which ostensibly represents all alumni...
...governing boards and administrators, meanwhile, were embroiled in a heated--and divisive--debate about the University's governance. After a Harvard-backed report urged more official control of Overseers elections, pro-divestment alumni upped the stakes in March, announcing the candidacy of South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu for the board. The campaign which followed was marked by some of the most intense rhetoric of the four-year-old movement to change the Overseers' role...
...also thinks that Archbishop Tutu should stop complaining and give back his diploma. "The guy really gets on my nerves," he says. "Mail it back tomorrow. I'll pay for the postage...
...Wolff is doing what Joseph McCarthy did. He is creating a banner under which he can float his own social agenda. He is exploiting Bishop Tutu to achieve his own ends...Governance of the University is the real objective there." Charles J. Egan '54, the new president of the Alumni Association, referring last week to the Overseers campaign run by HRAAA Executive Director Robert P. Wolff...