Word: antiapartheid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Derek Bok, Derek Bok, Let the woolly mammoth walk," were trite, and could stand some mockery. Now, however, the fun has gone too far. Victoria G.T. Bassetti's editorial in the Oct. 28 Crimson, far from being humorous, is seriously offensive. Parodies of mammoth slogans are funny, but the antiapartheid enthusiasts evidentally do not know when to stop. Extinction is not funny. The Johannesburg jokesters can crack their witticisms, and then walk away from the issue, but a woolly mammoth cannot walk away from its problems. It's extinct. Have some sensitivity. Majestic prehistoric beasts cruelly killed and frozen...
...freshmen (Crimson, October 23) to solicit University sanctions against the demise of the woolly mammoth. While their efforts can be dismissed as being all in fun, President Derek Bok's ready complicity in all this silliness seems to mock the seriousness of the issues involved in the antiapartheid advocacy of divestment. Bok's response may also have been all in fun, but it seems insensitive just the same...
...colored man was killed and a white police sergeant seriously wounded. A few days earlier, security forces drove a truck through the suburb and, when a crowd began to throw stones at it, officers concealed in wooden boxes atop the vehicle suddenly emerged and fired shotguns into the crowd. Antiapartheid leaders denounced the decoy operation, which South African newspapers dubbed the "Trojan Horse" incident, and thousands of people turned out for the funeral of three youths slain in the fusillade. At week's end the government dispatched hundreds of security agents to keep the peace in Athlone...
...Commission of Inquiry (COI) yesterday released its long-awaited report on the conduct of Harvard police and other officials at last May 2's antiapartheid demonstration. But not all of its investigations have covered topics as weighty. In the past, the COI--which for most of the '80s has been littleknown and even less used--took on criticisms of the Coop's textbook-buying procedures, charges of monopoly levelled against Harvard Student Agencies, and allegations that an English professor gave unfair advantages to students who attended an Adams House review section. Those stories...
...been hot-wired for social activism? Fine. Think this will blow over in a little, and everything will settle down? Think again; that is not going to happen for a while. There are two immediate reasons why: the release the week of Oct. 14 of an impassioned all-star antiapartheid record, Sun City, and the congenial reverberations from last week's FarmAid, the concert that featured top rock and country-and-western talent drumming up support for the American farmer. Both the Sun City record and the FarmAid concert, held at a football stadium in Champaign, Ill., celebrate a unity...