While absurdist touches in the ficitionalizedannual report--like discussions of two-hour planetravel and mocking descriptions of the "longunimaginative Bok regime"--tempered the speech'simmediate impact, it has clearly touched a nervein the Harvard community. Bok said he has receivedunprecedented amounts of mail and alumni responsewhich has only recently abated.

Harvard has strengthened international ties notonly in comment but in deed. According to theadmissions office, the number of foreignundergraduates has increased by as much as 10percent for the Class of '91.

Also, the Harvard Institute for InternationalDevelopment (HIID), a body which primarily isresponsible for research and teaching aboutthird-world political economy, has had its budgetincrease three-fold in four years. The HIID, whichis funded by private grants, was recently moved toa new building next to the Kennedy School ofGovernment.

Vice President for Government and CommunityAffairs John Shattuck said that no Universitycommittee yet exists which will consider Bok'ssuggestions.

Harvard's internationalization "will evolve byosmosis, as much as direction, because theUniversity is so decentralized," Shattuck said.

According to David Riesman '31, Ford Professorof Social Sciences Emeritus, the recent focus onthe international implications of American highereducation is actually a long-term movement that"is just beginning to be voiced by leaders."

Riesman said that such efforts--like branchcampuses throughout the world--must be "a two-waystreet" by holding classes for foreign nativesalong with American undergraduates.

In recent years, Stanford has been one of thefirst universities to initiate a "two-tiered"teaching setting at their Italian branch, Patgettsaid