Word: anti-apartheid
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...open discussions and in an open letter calling on Harvard to promote corporate withdrawal from South Africa, the Faculty became a definite participant in what President Bok terms the ongoing debate on South Africa. Instead of continuing passively to observe the wrangling of the Corporation and anti-apartheid groups, a significant number of the Faculty joined the debate over the University's responsibility as a shareholder to non-whites in South Africa, voiced its dissatisfaction with current University policy and proposed an alternative policy that would promote corporate withdrawal from South Africa...
PRESIDENT Bok, however, remains skeptical of assertions that corporate withdrawal will benefit non-whites in South Africa. But in doing so he overlooks, as the anti-apartheid groups claim, nearly every major black leader in South Africa. And he seems oblivious to the contentions of Rev. Desmond Tutu, a black South African leader who will receive an honorary degree at Commencement, that foreign investment in South Africa maintains apartheid...
Earlier this year, Bok told students who wanted Harvard to initiate anti-apartheid shareholder resolutions to go do it themselves; now Bok is again abdicating his ethical duties. "If there are those who believe that stricter guidelines are needed," challenges Bok, "let them propose clear and consistent standards and develop practical means for their enforcement...
...purporting to add a new "strand of complexity" to the South Africa debate, read a letter from a prominent clerygman asserting that it is, in fact, virtually impossible for multinational firms to "withdraw" from South Africa. Presumably, we are to infer from this that the efforts of the international anti-apartheid movement are futile...
...ultimate right of the South African people is self-determination. This is what we thought SASC stood for. It seems we may have been wrong. SASC appears to have its own ideology which transcends the anti-apartheid struggle. One need only look at SASC's recent collection drive for Zimbabwe refugees. By circumventing neutral international refugee organizations, which distribute supplies to all refugees without consideration of political orientation, and instead directly supplying one particular faction in an ideological struggle, SASC has made an implicit ideological evaluation of merit. Actions like this make it impossible for us to support SASC...