Word: anti-apartheid
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AFTER MORE THAN a decade, the anti-apartheid, pro-divestment movement at Harvard and around the country has finally achieved critical mass. Activists here and at hundreds of campuses nationwide have made this spring the most active in more than a decade and have focused attention on the issue at the collegiate, municipal, and national levels...
President Bok, although he claims to be speaking as a private citizen, effectively placed the Harvard name in support of anti-apartheid legislation, authored by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), during his testimony last month on Capitol Hill. Bok told a Senate subcommittee that economic sanctions are necessary because "the Afrikaaner government shows little evidence of moving to dismantle the system of apartheid...
...target U.S. corporate involvement and effective support for the South African government, Bok stubbornly clings to the fiction that Harvard's continued investments in South Africa-related companion can lead to some meaningful change in South Africa. If he is concerned enough about apartheid to lend his name to anti-apartheid legislation, he should not balk at a prime opportunity to enlist something far more powerful to help the cause: Harvard's millions...
...these are the same people who beginning decide on the academic careers of every student identified as participating in the two anti-apartheid protests in question...
Harvard should not be usurping reading period and exam time of House committee chairmen, anti-apartheid protesters, members of the press who have to report on the committee's committee's and other interested students when the College bears the blame for the lack of student nominations to the committee...