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Last spring's boycott of classes organized by the Coalition for Awareness and Action was aimed at linking racism in the United States with racism in South Africa. The University administration pays lip service to antiracist and anti-apartheid ideals but does nothing to aid the self determination of black people anywhere. Their statements calling for case-by-case reviews of corporations investing in South Africa and the most recent decision regarding the governing of Afro-Am Studies are both roadblocks to the development of autonomy for black people. Antony M. Brutus '77/80...
With the administration now in control of the divestiture debate, student groups are changing the focus of their protests. The SASC plans to join with other anti-apartheid groups and increase the scope of their activities to include the Boston area as well as Harvard. The SASC is branching out of Harvard because it "doesn't want divestiture to obscure the larger goal of corporate withdrawl," Matthew Rothschild '80, an SASC member, explains. Molly Nolan, associate professor of History, agrees. Any number of institutions are linked to aiding the South African regime, not just Harvard," she says...
...SASC will redirect its activities. It plans to join with other student anti-apartheid groups to provide material aid for Zimbabwe's Patriotic Front and to oppose a boxing match between the black American John Tate and the white South African Gerrie Coetzee. Rothschild says the upcoming fight "is being used as a ploy for white supremicist propaganda, with Coetzee billed as the 'Great White Hope...
...Friday, Hugh Calkins '45, chairman of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, will debate Harvard divestiture at the Science Center with Mark Smith, '72-4, the spokesman for the anti-apartheid movement at the dedication of the K-School last fall...
Within the University the Faculty is not only a critic of the Corporation's investment policy, but a potential arbitrater between student anti-apartheid groups and the Corporation. Next year faculty and students must coalesce to force the Corporation to accept a more coherent, well-drafted investment policy. In such a coalition the Faculty, of all University groups, can best articulate the anti-apartheid arguments students have pressed on the Corporation for the last two years. The emergence of many Faculty members as the "third force" at Harvard presents the most significant advance anti-apartheid groups at the University have...