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...stalemate that has held southern Africa in black-white deadlock for more than a decade is beginning to break up at last. Last week Prime Minister Ian Smith of Rhodesia, the bastion of white-settler power that broke free of British rule in 1965, announced that he had agreed to attend a constitutional conference that could lead to a settlement with Britain-and, eventually, to black-majority rule in Britain's breakaway colony. Smith also told his startled countrymen in a televised speech that the African independence movements that have waged a sporadic terrorist campaign against Rhodesia...
...forced to conclude that the temporary increase in black admissions was a response to the social upheaval of the 1960s and particularly to the militancy of the black liberation movement. The response was merely a cosmetic change in Harvard's image. Fundamentally the institution has remained a bastion of white supremacy...
...first time, the Harvard football squad has a black captain. However, is this a sign of progressive, unbiased thinking on the part of those associated with the football program or will it be used as just another token front for what may actually be a bastion of racism? Does the election of a black football captain make a mockery of the impressions of Harvard football gained by brothers like Robert Harper...
...identity crisis of Radcliffe College once again became an issue this week, as Matina Horner pledged to the Radcliffe Alumnae Council that "the male bastion" institution of Harvard will not lure its younger, sister college into "submerger...
Horner said, "Our women have nothing to be apologetic about. It would not be an appropriate or meaningful relationship with Harvard to see the loss of identity for Radcliffe. I would not find absorption by the male bastion an acceptable position...