Word: africa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, student activists at some of the schools battled the status quo. Joining undergraduate, alumni and staff activists, the graduate students worked for such diverse goals as divestment from South Africa, increased minority and women faculty hiring and the newly recognized union of clerical and technical workers...
...second semester the council struggled to reestablish its ties to the Endowment for Divestiture (E4D), an alternative gift fund which holds seniors' donations in escrow until Harvard divests from South Africa. But interest in the fund was minimal, and work began so late in the year that E4D essentially disappeared from campus for the year...
...governing forces of this University is to call it adversarial. The experiences I gained the most from, and often those which brought my friends and me closer, were fighting things we felt were wrong about the way the University was run, from the administration's policy towards South Africa to its handling of student protests...
...three Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA) members on the Board push Harvard to divest its $168.3 million in South Africa-related stock and push the Board to take a more active--and often adversarial--role, the University's response has become more closed and paranoic...
...joint committee of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers meets with activist students to discuss University investment policies. The students present a petition demanding divestment from companies that do business in South Africa, but leave the meeting dissatisfied...