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...most powerful man in the world, and the frequent target of Crimson editorialists. 1983’s staff positions read like a rap sheet, chronicling the paper’s disapproval of Reagan’s supply-side economics and aggressive foreign policy. Meanwhile, the practice of Apartheid persisted in South Africa and spilled into Cambridge, raising questions of divestment and inciting a hunger strike. While the oil shortages of the 70s had faded away, some prescient observers realized that stability was a fleeting phenomenon. Less presciently, many thought that the days of Ted Kennedy’s prominence...
...last have all been publicized, thereby calling attention to the often callous attitude of the Corporation toward students. The fast is reminder that other universities (most recently the University of Michigan), as well as the State of Massachusetts, have altered their investment portfolios and with drawn their support for apartheid without experiencing financial disaster. Fasting also represents fine complement to the alternative gift fund recently started by members of the senior class, a sum to be held in escrow until the University divests. More importantly, however, the students (and Professor of Biology Richard Lewontin, who has joined them) have stated...
...Sociology professor Mary C. Brinton includes Kozol’s 2005 “The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America” on her “Education and Society” syllabus...
...Paul A. Engelmayer ’83, who served as editorial chairman of The Crimson, said that there were several issues that brought students out in protest during his four years at Harvard: among them were divesting South Africa to protest the nation’s Apartheid regime, and concern over nuclear weapons and proliferation...
...Israel's continued violation of palestinian human rights is clear and well-documented, albeit undermined and distorted by Israel and its supporters. The apartheid regime in South Africa lasted 46 years before it collapsed under international pressure. When will that same pressure free the Palestinians? J.D. McRary, Clarkston, Georgia...