Word: apartheid
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...academic year, the Corporation had condemned South Africa’s apartheid system as “repugnant and inhumane” and put in place a system of guidelines for investment in the country. These rules called for the University to use its proxy votes to urge companies operating in South Africa to “take active steps to oppose apartheid” and to stop investing in banks that granted loans to the South African government...
...ACSR report does not end Harvard’s complicity in apartheid, nor does it aid in bringing about the destruction of apartheid,” Daniel Rabinovitz ’78, a member of the SASC, said at the time...
Rabinovitz also alleged that Harvard’s refusal to divest was financially motivated and the fact that ACSR did not take stronger action against apartheid “should surprise no one since the number one priority of this University is profits...
...Corporation met to discuss the ACSR’s recommendations, about 400 students demonstrated outside its offices under the watchful eyes of the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) to protest the University’s alleged compliance with apartheid...
...think the point they raised was a legitimate one,” Bok says. “Apartheid is a perfectly frightful regime and I understand why some students were concerned about...