Word: africas
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...might add that the Board has not "delegated thinking about the issue to a subcommittee..." The Board has agreed to a joint committee (five Overseers and three members of the Corporation) to consider investment issues relating to South Africa. The joint committee will report back to both Governing Boards and then, I expect, there will be plenty of thinking about and discussion of the report. In my experience the Overseers do not delegate their thinking to others. Daniel Steiner '54 Vice President and General Counsel
Leverett House senior Mark R. Hoffenberg '89, who received $2700 in grants from the CFIA, the Committee on African Studies and the Social Studies Committee, says his trip to South Africa was an invaluable experience...
While in South Africa, Hoffenberg--who emigrated from that country three years ago--interviewed more than 30 prominent South African personalities, including President P.W. Botha's chief political and constitutional advisers, leaders of the Black Consciousness Movement, and members of reactionary white political parties...
...wouldn't have been possible to present an adequate analysis of this topic without conducting this research [in South Africa]," he says...
...changes attempt to eradicate what little freedom of choice remains in Board elections. University alumni elect five Board members annually, for which Harvard has usually recruited a slate of 10. In recent years, alumni intent on turning around Harvard's refusal to divest from companies doing business in South Africa have also sponsored a slate of candidates, using petition nominations to get three elected...