Word: anti-apartheid
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...seven men who comprise the Harvard Corporation finished drawing up their position in the old President's House and walked outside, they could not help but feel a little nervous, for less than 100 feet away more than 1000 students were holding an anti-apartheid rally. In the hope of taking the steam out of the protests, the Corporation decided to delay releasing its decision for two days. Despite the delay, the release of the decision rejecting student demands for divestiture set the stage for the largest student demonstration at Harvard in five years as more than 3000 students participated...
This spring, the principal groups active in the anti-apartheid demonstrations included the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC), the Democratic Socialists, and four campus minority organizations. Several minority organizations, especially the Black Students' Association, had already built effective systems for dealing with major political issues; SASC, though a relatively young group, quickly developed workable organizing techniques...
...policy contend that even if American companies were to initiate labor reforms, the firms would have no practical effect on the apartheid system because they employ only four-tenths of 1 per cent of the black work force in South Africa. American companies in which Harvard holds stock serve only to bolster the apartheid system by supplying the South African white-minority government with the funds it needs to continue building a strong military and police force, the anti-apartheid group...
...towards specific companies on a case-by-case basis. However, the pro-divesture groups' arguments will probably remain centered aroung two points. First, students note that divestitutre at Harvard -- which has by far the largest endowment of any university in the nation -- would attract heavy publicity, possibly helping the anti-apartheid movment elsewhere. The second point was perhaps most succintly expressed by Mary Nolan, assistant professor of history, in challenging Harvard Corporation members: "If you don't divest, you're an accomplice to apartheid and I think you should own up to that...
While the active anti-apartheid groups are unanimous in their support of divestiture, the question of how fast the University should go in releasing its holdings in firms operating in South Africa remains, to some degree, a divisive issue. Some observers categorize the groups -- and the individuals within each group -- on a moderate-to-radical scale; this, however, is something of a misrepresentation, as the students advocating a more moderate approach are often no less radical than the other protesters in their political ideals but simply take a more pragmatic stand...