"By myself I can exert at best only minimalpressure, but I want to get the students and thecommunity at large involved in considering theseissues. That can have an influence," Weissmansaid.

Wait and Watch

Administrators know that students are very busyand are only here for a few years, Nader said."The administration knows how to wait students outand can do it," Nader said, adding "Harvard Watchwill wait them out."

Plans for Watch activities include "issuingreports, writing and publishing articles, holdingcommunity meetings on issues facing theUniversity" and pursuing an "activist role [inwhich] I will try to democratize the University towhatever extent I am able," Weissman said.

"What is at issue is students' right to know,"said Nader, outlining several issues that HarvardWatch will examine in the coming months.

"Harvard has to put on public record itsprofessors' moonlighting actions," said Nader,emphasizing corporate sponsorship of Harvardprofessors as a major threat to academic freedom.

"There are three independent sources ofinformation in our society: government, industry,and universities," said Nader. "If the latter twoget together we will lose that independence."

Nader acknowledged universities' dependence onprivate donations for a research funds but saidthat "We don't need strings attached."

Athough Bok has expressed concern recentlyabout the growing relationship between Harvard andcorporate America, Nader was critical of thepresident's conduct in other areas.

"Bok is not accessible enough to alumni withcomplaints" nor to students, said Nader. Thepresident is primarily "accessible to affluentalumni," he said.

Nader also said Harvard Watch will monitor theUniversity's diciplinary process. The steeringcommittee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences iscurrently discussing a proposal to establish astudent-faculty disciplinary body that wouldreview cases stemming from political protest.

"The disciplinary system is controledcompletely by the faculty with students playingonly an advisory role," said Weissman.

"Political infractions and other dicipliaryinfractions are now treated differently, theeffect of which is to stifle political activism,"he said.

"The people who populate theUniversity--students, faculty, workers and, ofcourse, the administration--all have a right tohelp determine the policies of the University," hesaid.

"We don't expect the Corporation to bedisbanded in the next year but that is thedirection that we need to be moving in," Weissmansaid