Word: wood
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...reality does not meet this ideal in Wood's view. "Meeting with these people is like riding through the peasantry of Paris, going to Versailles and sitting down with a group of courtiers who are not in touch with the commoners," he said...
...Wood stressed that a more open Board would not be contrary to the basic principles under which it was created. "There is no real reason to be so closed as to be really out of touch," he said. "There is nothing that precludes us from taking votes, nothing that says that the minutes of the meeting can't be public...
...problem of a closed Board could be changed by an increase in the electorate, Wood said. Currently only about 25 percent of the alumni vote in Overseer elections. If this percentage were increased, Wood said, it would make the Board more liberal and would give the overseers a feeling of resposibility to the community as a whole...
...sure that there are hundreds of potential voters who are alienated to the right, but for every one of these there's got to be 10 to the left," Wood said. "Now the candidates are primarily nominated from within the University, and they feel no real responsibility to the outside community. They are filled with gratitude rather than responsibility...
Only 25 people attended the symposium, which addressed Harvard's reluctance to divest, the recently elected support staff union and student activism on campus. The other speakers were Peter H. Wood '64, a pro-divestment member of the Board of Overseers, Rosa Ehrenreich '91, a student activist who volunteered for HUCTW and Professor of Biology William H. Bossert '59, Lowell House master...