Word: africas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meeting, although most overseers participated in the discussion there was no consensus reached on how the Board should act. The University currently practices "selective divestment," handling each investment on a case-by-case basis. Harvard has approximately $200 million invested in companies that do business with South Africa...
...Board agreed to these recommendations in April, Butler said that he would accept nominations for the joint committee; although the Executive Committee--chaired by Butler--retained ultimate decision-making authority. The three petition candidates nominated each other and Overseer Gerald E. Thomas '51, a visiting scholar in the Southern Africa department at Yale University...
Recently, ativists have sought access to the committee. Seidman, who is a sociology doctoral candidate researching a dissertation on South Africa, said she hoped that either she or Thomas would have the opportunity to make a presentation to the joint committee. Seidman said if they were not invited, the panel should hear from South African exiles. "It's upsetting to me that there's no one on the committee who knows anything about South Africa or about the region. They're going to have to learn a lot of basic things...
...Executive Committee also does not include any overseers who have publicly expressed support for the divestment movement. The committee's agreement on divestment is made more striking as the Board becomes more preoccupied by Harvard's links to South Africa...
...organized the Peace Resurgence Education Project. We organized a sit-in at the Chase Manhattan Bank over the issue of loans to South Africa. There were 40 or so people arrested. A month later we organized the first national march on Washington. There were about 25,000 students...