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This week the Harvard Corporation called on the Timken Company to withdraw from South Africa. The decision followed the release of President Bok's second open letter that terms divestiture unjustifies and contends that the most effective way to alter corporate practices in South Africa is by voting on shareholder resolutions and communicating "in other ways with management...
However, the Corporation has refused to intiate shareholder resolutions while Bok has stated that the most "effective" way to alter corporate practices is through shareholder pressure. He is letting shareholders make the first cry for change...
...then to involve students? Rosovsky points out that students can't reasonably expect the committee to put the proposed slate of courses up for a referendum at this late date. Once the Core committees have selected their courses they are unlikely to alter willingly their choices in response to students' objections. But Rosovsky fails to acknowledge that students should have participated when the committees began drafting and debating possible courses earlier in the year...
...nothing came easily to the man who thought "Bully!" was a rallying cry, not an accusation. He fought for every office: erstwhile superiors feared that they would soon be at his mercy. They were right to tremble; even as a young assistant secretary of the Navy, Roosevelt managed to alter foreign policy. Almost singlehanded he turned the U.S. from isolation to expansion. He was determined to free Cuba from Spain, annex Hawaii and, with luck, drive the British out of Canada...
...letter restates the position of the Harvard Corporation that the best means to alter corporate behavior in South Africa and help South African blacks is "to vote as a shareholder and continue to communicate in other ways with management...