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...task force's mission was an odd one--the professors, John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History, Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, and Ezra Vogel, professor of Sociology, among them, were told to fend for themselves. They cultivated their Far East contacts and encouraged Japanese businessmen and government officials to invest in Harvard. "We must rely on alumni and business contacts--we professors are not businessmen ourselves," Fair bank recalls today...
...short time since Harvard received the grants, the Japanese money has all but dried up. "It is an uphill battle now," Vogel says citing Japanese inflation and exorbitant oil prices that have caused many Japanese doors to close on University fund-raising efforts. But Dr. Chase N. Peterson '52, vice president for alumni affairs and development, says the University has now placed East Asian Studies second only to President Bok's recently announced public policy program on the priority list of fund-raising efforts. By doing that, Bok has taken the work out of the hands of the professors--many...
Tugs and Pulls. Another destabilizing element is China's radicals, who, despite the apparent strength of Chou and his fellow moderates, have unexpectedly surged to power before and could do so again. "These things in China have never been total and final victories," says Ezra Vogel, director of Harvard's East Asian Research Center. "They are tugs and pulls; this time it looks like a tug on the side of Chou." A crucial death or a sign of weakness in the ranks of the moderates could lead the radicals once again to reach for power...
Much of the racial antagonism, Vogel said, stems from the attitudes of the school committee which believes that the problem is not the quality of the schools, but the quality of the students...
...Vogel criticized the Board of Education's decision to integrate South Boston High School, which, according to her, has only resulted in violent racism on the part of the South Boston residents...