Word: africa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Bok, who said in an open letter this spring that divestiture of University stock in companies doing business in South Africa is unjustified, will award Tutu the degree...
...Globe quotes Tutu as saying in a speech last month in Boston that Americans have "a fundamental moral decision to make" in regard to their in- vestments in South Africa. Tutu is the general secretary of the South African Council of Churches. He will return to South Africa after Commencement, concluding a month-long tour of the United States
...horizons of many, including myself. It has furthermore, helped us all to grow as individuals, making the challenges of the future less foreboding. However, I refuse to believe that the continuing fulfillment of its mission must come at the expenses of the support of oppression and injustice in South Africa. It may take some financial prodding, but the University must be given a moral pinch or else it will continue to help prolong the tragic nightmare in South Africa. For this reason, I urge fellow classmates to support a financial boycott and a mailing campaign to the Corporation until...
...have often wondered what the Harvard Corporation would have done in the late 1930's-early 1940's if it had owned stock in American corporations with subsidiaries in Nazi Germany. Would it have adopted an investment policy similar to the one it now owns up to in South Africa and offered three or four scholarships to German-Jewish students to come to Harvard? That is a question that perhaps no one can answer with great certainty, but the present South Africa stockholding policy casts a dark fearful shadow over the answer...
...three main goals in establishing the Biko Fund. First, it allows individuals who otherwise would not have contributed to make a positive statement against University investment policy. Second, the existence and support of the Fund will be a symbol of discontent and concern over the current situation in South Africa. Third, the Fund will provide direct support for the undergraduate education of black and colored South Africans at Harvard...