Word: anti-apartheid
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While the University is doing ethical house-cleaning in its investments, it should take the simple step that students and anti-apartheid leaders have urged for years: divest itself completely of all investments in companies that do business in South Africa. The University has dragged its feet on the issue for almost 20 years, latching on to one discredited compromise after another while ignoring the pleas of such moral authorities as South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, a member of the Board of Overseers. An educational institution that claims to uphold moral principles must recognize the imperative to eschew profits...
Although alumni anti-apartheid activists were encouraged by last year's results, they said yesterday that losses in the most recent election might stall efforts to force the University to divest of its $168 million in South Africa-related stocks...
While the University is doing ethical house-cleaning in its investments, it should take the simple step that students and anti-apartheid leaders have urged for year; divest itself completely of all investments in companies that do business in South Africa. The University has dragged its feet on the issue for almost 20 years, latching on to one discredited compromise after another while ignoring the pleas of such moral authorities as South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, a member of the Board of Overseers. An educational institution that claims to uphold moral principles must recognize the imperative to eschew profits...
...benefit screening of the film Cry Freedom last night, vocal figures in the South African anti-apartheid movement said the government said the government's recent reforms do not make divestment by Harvard or other American colleges unnecessary...
...undergraduate anti-apartheid group has joined forces with student groups from other Boston universities to increase pressure on their schools to divest, said Debbie Gurner '91, a member of Harvard's Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC...