Word: biko
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However, Eastman said in an open letter to seniors released yesterday that the Biko Fund will not greatly aid black South Africans, and that students can better express their objections to Harvard's South Africa investment policies by giving no money whatsoever to the University...
...creation of the Biko Fund "was based upon the assumption that in- ternational students were treated substantially different in the financial aid process than were American students," Eastman wrote...
Michael R. Eastman '79, a class marshal, proposed the establishment of the Biko Fund as a compromise between students calling for a total boycott of the senior fund drive and students opposing such a boycott...
...Recently, however, after reviewing the functioning of the Fund, I discovered that the fund would not actually fill a vacuum," he wrote, adding that "because the College's equal access policy covers foreign as well as American students, the Biko Fund money would actually serve as a substitute for money already forthcoming from the College financial aid office...
...class marshals contacted yesterday said they did not favor total boycott, and that contributions to the Biko Fund still have symbolic value, even if the money does not greatly increase opportunities for black South Africans to study at Harvard...