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Some observers have suggested that the Board provided merely a rubber stamp to the Corporation's choice, as overseers were forced to vote quickly and with little discussion. Whitehead says, however, that the approval came quickly at the end because overseers had been in touch with the process all along...
...They had been kept so informed that by the time it came to their function of giving approval, they felt well-prepared to make that decision and to vote," Whitehead says...
...There's been a good deal of integration," says Whitehead. "We have operated more and more as one body instead of as two completely separate bodies...
...Whitehead says he believes that the overseers now feel more closely involved in the making of decisions, since they have more opportunities to express their views directly to members of the Corporation...
...overseer questions Whitehead's claim that closer contact between the two bodies means more influence for the overseers, saying, "What will happen is not that the Corporation will share power, but that the Corporation will run the University and the Board will go back to being a rubber stamp...