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...cent participation substantially breaks previous marks. "This blows every record," Peter F. Clifton '49, director of the Harvard College Fund, said yesterday, attributing the increase in participation to better organization of the fund drive and the creation of restricted scholarship funds like the Biko fund...
...percentages of students giving to each separate scholarship fund have not yet been calculated, but more students gave to the Steven Biko Scholarship Memorial Fund this year than last, Michael Cominsky '80, co-chairman of the 1980 Senior Solicitation, said yesterday. The 1979 senior class committee created the fund last year to help finance scholarships for Black South Africans...
...Engelhard controversy and develop guidelines for accepting gifts and naming facilities. The committee was plagued by internal rifts, with two of its members dropping out, but it did release tentative guidelines on April 11--the same day 300 demonstrators called for the library to be named after Steven Biko, the slain leader of the South African Black Consciousness Movement...
Since financial considerations play a large role in President Bok's ruminations on investment policies, we may ultimately be able to begin to affect these policies through 'economic sanctions.' The 'Stephen Biko Memorial Fund is hardly a reasonable option for us: the University can easily transfer funds it would have used for these students' scholarships to other areas, and educating a few carefully selected blacks would probably provide their brothers little relief from the economic and moral degradations of apartheid. This program might be useful if few or no South African blacks now attend Harvard and if there would...
...feel strongly that our support of the Biko Fund is in no way compromised by Harvard's equal access policy. Its many practical aspects remain and we continue to support its existence and viability. If next year's class matches our contribution of $2600, the Fund will have reached the needed $5000 to establish its legitimacy. We encourage the continued support of the Biko Fund. Aaron J. Alter '79 Harvard Marshal Kathy P. Evans '79 Radcliffe Marshal