Word: anti-apartheid
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Naively, I hadn't even thought about the prospect of an anti-apartheid boycott until I read the "Sports People" column in last Sunday's New York Times. In a non-threatening tidbit, the Times reported that Harry Edwards, an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, announced that he would lead a boycott if South African athletes were allowed to compete...
...Owens's inspirational actions aside, I don't have much hope of salvaging the 1988 Olympics from anti-apartheid politics. The issue of apartheid cuts deep, and will be harder for athletes, both white and Black to ignore. But in they don't the point of the Olympics will be lost once again, as was in 1972, 1976, 1980 and 1984 I can only hope that people really don't like the boycott Mr. Edwards--and not because he's Black...
...weeks ago, the Faculty Council called on the CRR--which has not heard a case since 1975 to decide the cases of students involved in the Quincy St and Lowell House anti-apartheid protests...
...lunchtime protests are part of a recent surge of anti-apartheid activism Harvard and other colleges Students have said Harvard's investments support repression by the South African government and want the University to divest its holdings...
With the minor exception of the Lowell House blockade, the student pro-divestment, anti-apartheid movement has been conducted in the best traditions of the Rev. Martin Luther King. The use of the CRR to quash the movement and turn the debate away from its proper place--University conduct--is Big Brotherism of the most cynical and small-minded sort...