Word: tutu
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According to a letter written by Peter L. Malkin '55, one of HAA's ten official nominees, HAA wants to insure that "dissident" candidates, including South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, are not elected to the 30-member alumni governing board. Malkin said he wrote the letter in response to strong campaigning for five independently nominated pro-divestment candidates...
...Harvard administration are very concerned that the dissident petition slate of five candidates, headed by Bishop Tutu, may play havoc with, the administration of Harvard unless more than the usual effort is made to encourage the election of candidates selected for nomination through the normal channels," Malkin wrote in the letter...
Malkin's letter comes a month after a pro-divestment group, Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA), nominated Tutu and four others for the Board. For the last four years, HRAAA has nominated its own slate of candidates in an effort to force a vote on the University's remaining $168 million invested in South African related businesses...
...Robert P. Wolff '54, director of Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni/ae Against Apartheid, on the nomination of South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu as a candidate for the Board of Overseers...
Last year, Gore's unsuccessful presidentialcampaign prevented him from attending meetingsduring his first year as an overseer. Now, someoverseers say Tutu might not be able to attend theCambridge meetings or put in the needed hours...