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From the anti-war invasion of University Hall in 1969 to the 1979 Apartheid divestment rallies to the living wage sit-in at Mass. Hall a few years ago, Harvard students over the last few decades have rarely refused to cause a stir. This year, too, efforts to vocally carry on the tradition of ardent student activism at the College have been many and, for the most part, welcome. From four arrests in Miami to nudity in the name of animal rights, the College community has witnessed a respectable maintenance of its obligation to objection—if, at times...
...challenge for the Class of 1979 was apartheid. The challenge for the Class of 2004 is genocide. The body counts are higher, the need for action even more urgent, but the cause never more morally simple: genocide in Darfur must be stopped...
...They ended up accepting the premise of divestment advocates, namely that the University had a moral responsibility not to invest in companies that were complicit in apartheid,” Mansfield says...
Whether or not this debate left a lasting mark on Harvard’s investment policy, the controversy did illustrate the passion of students for ridding Harvard of its ties to apartheid...
...Vietnam] had ended and we’d missed the sit-ins of the war years, but there was still a substantial amount of political activism on campus,” she writes in an e-mail. “I remember many rallies in the Yard protesting apartheid and urging Harvard to divest its holdings in South Africa...