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...much-anticipated move, Wood presented a proposal calling for total divestment at the Board's December meeting. After the meeting, Board President Samuel C. Butler '51 said that the Overseers would likely consider the proposal for total divestment at the February meeting...
...Wood said that not only the Executive Committee but the entire Board should be more open. The Gilbert Committee on the Structure and Function of the Board of Overseers, which met in 1978 and wrote that the role of the Overseers was to reflect "the considered judgements of an enlightened society...
...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...