Word: anti-apartheid
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While Bok has receives widespread praise for his work in expanding these nascent arrangements, national anti-apartheid groups criticize his contention that the programs are a substitute for--as opposed to a complement to--other actions, such as divestiture...
...director of the American Committee on Africa, says. "I don't think that anyone can argue with the education of Black South Africans, but one must consider the environment they are going back to, Divestment is a more powerful force to change that than just helping a few individuals." Anti-apartheid groups are also concerned that the programs only apply to students who are based in South Africa without considering student refugees in neighboring countries or abroad who were forced out of South Africa after the student riots in 1976. However, proponents of the programs say there are other programs...
Nevertheless, there is some coordination--at Williams and elsewhere--among supporters of anti-apartheid actions. While advocates of divestiture at Harvard fasted last month, several students at Williams also staged brief "sympathy fasts." Students at Columbia University also staged a candlelight vigil in support of the Harvard hunger strikers at the time. Columbia's Board of Trustees is currently considering the recommendation of the Columbia Faculty Senate that the university divest from all companies conducting business in South Africa...
...Organization, said yesterday that Bok's statement is particularly insensitive because it is being released on the day when three members of the African National congress are scheduled to be executed in South Africa, despite a world outcry and a special appeal to the U.S. to intervene from the Anti-Apartheid Unit of the United Nations...
Nevertheless, there is some coordination--at Williams and elsewhere--among supporters of anti-apartheid actions. While advocates of divestiture at Harvard fasted last month, several students at Williams also staged brief "sympathy fasts." Students at Columbia University also staged a candlelight vigil in support of the Harvard hunger strikers at the time. Columbia's Board of Trustees is currently considering the recommendation of the Columbia Faculty Senate that the university divest from all companies conducting business in South Africa...