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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Harvard--Divesting of the Debate | 9/14/1979 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Harvard--Divesting of the Debate | 9/14/1979 | See Source »

...very quick to predict, however, what will happen to them. "We believe in this concept," says Churchill, a major admission from an officer of a corporation that last year mailed every state legislator more than 100 pages of anti-disclosure arguments. "We think this bill is much too sweeping, though," she says, quickly, and then grumbles through a list of the bill's weaknesses. "Who is covered? We may have to disclose this for everyone applying to a New York state school, and that would make our problems huge. What do we have to send? A xeroxed copy of every...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Testing: Truth or Consequences? | 9/14/1979 | See Source »

...1960s. The catalyst was the civil rights movement, which forced textbook publishers to do some justice to the role of blacks in American life. But other ethnic minorities, as well as women's groups and antiwar protesters, demanded redress. Organizations from the.B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League to the Council on Interracial Books for Children all pushed for revisions of textbook passages they considered demeaning. Even poor Squanto was taken to task by the Interracial Books people because by helping the Pilgrims, he had given aid and comfort to a foreign invader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: E PIuribus Confusion | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

Basically a sound mixer like those used by disco deejays, the box mingles bland music with subliminal anti-theft messages ("I am honest. I will not steal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Secret Voices | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

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