Word: anti-apartheid
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SINCE THE UNIVERSITY pulled the rusty old Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR) out of the shed last spring to discipline a handful of anti-apartheid protesters, a lot of things have changed at Harvard...
University Hall's grievances against student anti-apartheid protesters are currently being considered by the CRR, a judiciary body which can independently administer the full range of University punishments--except dismissal and expulsion, which require approval from the full Faculty. But students complaining of violations of their rights had no independent authority to which they could appeal. The only formal channel for their complaints was the COI, a body whose function, according to the Handbook for Students, is to "re-direct [complaints] to the appropriate agency of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences" but which has "no power to make...
...School Administration Board last week dropped all disciplinary action against 70-odd students who refused to cooperate with an official inquiry into an anti-apartheid demonstration last spring...
...credit, Harvard did indeed abandon some of its aloofness last week when it devoted $1 million to an anti-apartheid fund. This was a generous move, but it was also clearly a use of the University's money to make a moral statement. Students now are asking the University to up the ante and make the moral statement even more powerful...
...decision to establish a $1 million anti-apartheid fund with Harvard money similarly defies his strictures about the appropriate uses of University resources. As described in the open letter, this fund would support a wide array of endeavors, including lobbying for federal sanctions against South Africa, "contributing money to the defense of South Africans whose human rights have been violated," and sending Harvard students to South Africa to provide legal, medical, and educational services...