Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students declared "sanctuary" in the church on Friday. At that time, the worshippers announced their support for the candidacy of South African Archbishop and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Desmond M. Tutu, who is seeking election to Harvard's Board of Overseers on the Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid slate...
...forthrightly denounce any theological justification for the policy of apartheid and any University policy which directly or indirectly lends legitimacy to such oppression," reads the "statement of purpose" for the group--called the Peace Community. "With prayer and fasting, we call for new avenues of moral leadership at this institution...
Tutu, a Nobel laureate and prominent opponent of South Africa's apartheid policy, is running for the Overseers on a divestment slate sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid. In several visits to Harvard, Tutu has called on the University to divest and recently said he would give back his 1979 honorary degree if the investment policies were not changed...
Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid's (HRAAA) fight to force the University's divestment from its South African-related investments is far from over, but the activist group this week claimed a small victory against the administration...
Malkin's letter comes a month after a pro-divestment group, Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA), nominated Tutu and four others for the Board. For the last four years, HRAAA has nominated its own slate of candidates in an effort to force a vote on the University's remaining $168 million invested in South African related businesses...