Word: africa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition to the never-ending battle for Harvard divestment from South Africa and the push for more minority faculty, minorities organized and hosted three major events just last month: Visions '89, which brought together minorities from about 40 New England-area colleges to discuss minority issues, the AWARE (Actively Working Against Racism and Ethnocentrism) week, and Cultural Rhythms--an event which had the dual purpose of enlightening minorities about each other as well as exposing whites to different aspects of minority cultures...
Senior Feroze Khan succeeded Clyvan and continued the task of promoting the sport on campus. The current co-captains, Atha and Shumya Das, encourage anyone interested in the club to join. Currently, most of the club is comprised of international students from Australia, Africa, Pakistan, India, England, New Zealand, and the West Indies...
Lewis defended the legitimacy of investors--including universities like Harvard--who use LBOs, saying even educational institutions should be allowed to "use the free market." But he added that "South Africa is beyond pale" because of its policy of apartheid...
...stopped taking seriously William F. Buckley's conservative rag National Review when it called South Africa a "genuinely threatened democracy," but I still like to pick it up for a few laughs. A recent issue contains an article called "Murder in Broad Daylight," about the demise of Ivy League football. And whom do you think Hart blames for this tragedy? Liberals, of course...
After two seasons of struggling hand to mouth, South Africa Now seems likely to endure. Its producers have received badly needed funding in the form of a $100,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation and $25,000 from the Carnegie Corporation. The show has also won a satellite slot that will make it available to the nation's 334 PBS stations by late spring. Far from fearing competition from the upstart broadcast, many network staffers are actively rooting for its success. That is one piece of good news about South Africa that everyone can share...