Word: apartheiders
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...nine-day effort was one of the most prodigious protests by Harvard students in decades. According to Crimson archives, the last time undergraduates held a multi-day hunger strike was in 1983, when a handful fasted for a week to call on the University to divest from apartheid South Africa...
...South African apartheid was in its 40th year when the Class of 1982 arrived at Harvard...
...Administrators and Corporation members have changed since the Class of 1982 first arrived at Harvard; the advisory group is no longer the Advisory Committee for Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR), but the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility; and apartheid-era South Africa is gone, bringing attention instead to the genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan...
...member ACSR rejected full divestment from companies operating within South Africa, instead arguing that a “case-by-case” evaluation would allow the Corporation to see how directly a company was supporting the apartheid system...
...same meeting, Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations at the Kennedy School Joseph S. Nye, Jr. said that the University’s unwillingness to act on its beliefs about apartheid impeded its educational mission...