Word: anti-apartheid
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Lawrence F. Stevens '65, secretary of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR), began Monday to hold individual conferences with students who marched up to his Holyoke Center office during the anti-apartheid protest on April...
...found" against withdrawal of U.S. corporations from South Africa. Yet they are able to cite only one: Percy Qoboza, a newspaper editor and former Nieman fellow, who made his statement just after being released after five months of detention. The Corporation never mentions the hundreds of African leaders and anti-apartheid organizations in South Africa that have demanded that foreign companies cease operations there, flouting the South African law that says calling for withdrawal may be considered an "act of terrorism" punishable under South African law by imprisonment or death. In the tradition of white paternalism, Harvard chooses to prescribe...
...PROTESTERS who marched through Cambridge last Thursday night following the release of the Harvard Corporation's decision on its South Africa investments bear clear witness that the Harvard community will not accept that decision. The United Front acted swiftly and decisively to organize Thursday's and previous anti-apartheid demonstrations, and they deserve high praise for marshalling impressive and peaceful demonstrations...
...would be a mistake, however, to regard the demonstrations as futile efforts in the light of the Corporation's seemingly unalterable decision. They provide added encouragement for similar movements at other schools, and because of the media attention large demonstrations receive, public awareness of anti-apartheid sentiment is bound to increase...
...Friday morning, we learned that enough people are fundamentally united againt apartheid to carry on with only impromptu leaders, and still succeed. And that knowledge should inspire everyone connected with the anti-apartheid movement with confidence and optimism...