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...??We felt Harvard University should not be another brick in the wall of apartheid,?? said Jamin B. Raskin ??83, who participated in the 1985 protests while at the Law School...
That year, protestors would occasionally stage ??pop and stops”??activities to prove that they were well-organized enough to seize control of a major administrative building if necessary. Massive groups of students would instantly materialize and pile into the offices of Massachusetts Hall, where they handed the secretaries flowers and mysteriously said, ??We’ll be back later,?? before quickly dissipating...
...??Our work was profoundly creative,?? Michael T. Anderson ??83 said. ??It wasn’t just some pious liberal statement about the solidarity of suffering Africans. It was, ??We can do something about this by squeezing a major institution in the country, one that claims to be very progressive.???...
...respond to Jesse Jackson’s letter, writing that he shared protestors’ ??abhorrence of apartheid.?? But the president continued to defend his argument that taking a political stance on an issue would compromise Harvard’s independence as an educational institution. In speeches and subsequent letters to the community, Bok continued to state that it was inappropriate for a university to engage in politics or become a moral watchdog...
...apartheid protests in 1985 occurred during a fraught time at the University in which liberal students, stuck in ??the darkest years of the Reagan administration,?? craved the revolutionary change enacted by the notorious rioters of the 60s and 70s, according to Anderson...