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...profit volunteering. If President Eliot’s call to “serve thy kind” refers to human kind, then the past year surely has echoed that sentiment, with the natural disasters in Asia and South America, a global food crisis, various election crises in Africa, ongoing oil hikes, and the threat of recession...
...world, and the frequent target of Crimson editorialists. 1983’s staff positions read like a rap sheet, chronicling the paper’s disapproval of Reagan’s supply-side economics and aggressive foreign policy. Meanwhile, the practice of Apartheid persisted in South Africa and spilled into Cambridge, raising questions of divestment and inciting a hunger strike. While the oil shortages of the 70s had faded away, some prescient observers realized that stability was a fleeting phenomenon. Less presciently, many thought that the days of Ted Kennedy’s prominence on the American political scene were...
...Finally, in Africa, the colonial invasion has long receded, yet its comprehensive effects persist clear as day. Last November, PetroChina became the world’s largest corporation, profiting all the while from the murderous state of affairs in the Sudan, where Khartoum-sponsored mass murder persists in Darfur. Meanwhile, UBS, the Swiss financial services giant, facilitated PetroChina’s rise by hosting its Shanghai IPO—without considering the bargaining power it held to enact change in one of the world’s most neglected, most devastated quadrants. Mere greed seems to have...
...still alive and well at Harvard in 1983. In a place where being called “idealists” carries the implication “naive”. it may at first seem odd that a group of students should protest Harvard’s ties to South Africa by means of a fast. But the week-long hunger strike is neither idealistic not overly impractical. The fasters have already dramatized on an international scale the indifference of the Harvard Corporation to repeated demands by faculty and students for divestment from companies operating in South Africa. Corporation members Hugh...
...Paul A. Engelmayer ’83, who served as editorial chairman of The Crimson, said that there were several issues that brought students out in protest during his four years at Harvard: among them were divesting South Africa to protest the nation’s Apartheid regime, and concern over nuclear weapons and proliferation...