Unchallenged because the University maintains its research connections to the federal government and the military--unscrutinized.

Unchallenged because Harvard's promise of diversity is still an empty one for those who are the statistics. Because their is no women's center. Because there are few, if any, meaningful attempts to break down racial barriers. Because tuition continues to increase far faster than inflation, despite a $5 billion endowment.

The list goes on...reminders that when Bok stands before us today, he goes unchallenged.

BOK and his closest advisors rule Harvard with an iron hand not only because of their specific policies, but because they have defined the role of the University in the two decades since Saundra Graham--and so many others--called for its reevaluation.

What made those voices of 20 years ago so insistent in their critique of Harvard was the realization that the concept of education itself had to be rethought. That academia had helped shape those same social problems the activists of 1970 were protesting. And that students could no longer separate what was happening in the world from what was happening on their own campus, in their own classrooms.

This is the lost legacy of campus activism 20 years ago--a legacy not only of results, but also of questions. When Saundra graham seized the stage, she demanded something more than concrete action by Harvard. She demanded the right to pose her own questions. Many of the student members of that Commencement audience had also taken up the challenge.

Twenty years after that Commencement, there will be no Saundra Graham. There will be no disruptive students. There will be no questions.

Susan B. Glasser '90, a Social Studies concentrator, was managing editor of The Crimson in 1989 Jennifer M. Frey '90, a History and Literature concentrator, was sports editor of The Crimson in 1989.