Gore Nominated for Harvard President

Tuesday, December 19th 2000, 12:00 am

By: News On 6

BOSTON (AP) â€” Vice President Al Gore is one of about 500 people nominated for the presidency of Harvard University, according to the chairman of the university's presidential search committee.

``He'll go into our pool and be considered seriously,'' Robert G. Stone Jr., a senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, which will make the final choice, told The Boston Globe.

Stone, however, said Gore, who graduated from Harvard in 1969, is unlikely to be selected.

``He doesn't have the academic and intellectual standing,'' Stone said in Tuesday's newspaper.

Stone confirmed that four people have nominated Gore to succeed Neil L. Rudenstein, who plans to step down next summer.

Joseph S. Nye, dean of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, said the university was more likely to hire a nonpartisan figure.

``He's an extremely bright man who has a Harvard degree, and you can't get much better experience,'' Nye said. ``But he hasn't been in the academic world.''

Jim Kennedy, Gore's spokesman, said Tuesday, ``At this point, we're not commenting on any rumors about the vice president's future.''