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...announcement this week that South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu would run for a seat on the Board of Overseers ensured that Harvard's investment policy would continue to be a controversial issue for the University's governing boards...
Last year, no H/RAAA candidate won a seat to the Board, and this fall, a special committee recommended changes in the election process which would make it harder for petition candidates--like Tutu and the other H/RAAA nominees--to win seats...
...Tutu wins--and most observers expect he will--the University will have a hard time sidestepping the divestment issue...
...look forward with great anticipation to the moment when [President] Derek Bok attempts to explain in front of Archbishop Tutu why it is in Blacks' best interest not to divest," Robert P. Wolff '54, H/RAAA director, said this week. "I think the University's position will crumble at that moment...
...addition to the three overseers elected on the H/RAAA slate, Tutu and Overseer Sen. Albert J. Gore '69 (D-Tenn.) have already said they support a stronger divestment stand. Activists have also said that Paul G. Kirk '60, the former Democratic Party chair who is a Harvard candidate up for a seat on the Board this year, might favor total divestment...