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...have what is probably their last chance to force the Corporation to re-affirm the absolute ban of years past, a concession students won through their protests in 1978. The Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility meets at 7:30 p.m. to consider the case-by-case proposal: if the ACSR lends its support to that recommendation, the Corporation is virtually certain to approve it permanently. Only the loudest of objections by the ACSR has a chance to influence the Corporation and only the loudest of protests by students, in turn, seems likely to move the ACSR...
...ACSR's rare open meeting, slated for Emerson 105, affords students an opportunity to air their views and to convince Harvard to stick by its less objectionable stance. We hope all students will attend, make their voices head, and prove to Harvard and the nation that some people continue to care about injustice in South Africa. If they do not, the moral retrenchment of the University and the government can only get worse...
...Corporation representatives employed specious arguments and unscrupulous tactics in asking the ACSR to ratify a major policy departure presented in the guise of a minor modification, and without the benefit of a detailed discussion either within the ACSR or among the Harvard community as a whole. The proposed alteration was not a minor technical matter but the effective abrogation of the University's South African policy. Second, the Citibank loan was not solicited by South African Blacks. The Wall Street Journal of Sept. 26. 1980 quotes South African Finance Minister Owen Horwood, who was exultant over the case with which...
...Corporation's formal reform proposal contains a postscript noting that under the new guidelines, the Citibank loan would probably not be considered humanitarian. It should be emphasized that a sub-committee of the ACSR and not the Corporation reached this conclusion was directly contradicted by Corporation member Hugh Calkins '45 both in his much publicized letter to the ACSR where he claimed the Citibank loan served a "worthy purpose," and in a recent Harvard Crimsoninterview where he invoked the opinion of "some" Blacks to justify the loan. If the Corporation dares to mention the Citibank loan in the same breath...
...corporation evidently thought it could pull off a power play in rescinding the present South Africa policy without provoking resistance from within the ACSR or the Harvard community as a whole. Fortunately, objections by committee members and a large student demonstration convinced the entire ACSR membership to postpone a decision on the back policy well after an open meeting. In the past, only mass student protest forced the Harvard Corporation to do the right thing. Perhaps this time, reason will suffice. I doubt...