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Along with all other seniors, I have recently received a letter signed by the Senior Class Committee, describing the Stephen Biko Memorial Fund as an opportunity, "both to financially assist the University in its academic mission and to show disapproval of the University's investment policy." There are several points seniors should consider before contributing to this chimerical fund...
...Acknowledge the renaming of the Engelhard Library at the Kennedy School as the Steve Biko Memorial Library...
...senior class should indeed act together by boycotting the regular senior gift and contributing only to the Steven Biko Fund. Giving money to the University would show support for the amorality of President Bok's March 9 letter to the Harvard community, for the obfuscation of the Corporation in naming the Engelhard Library, and for the University's consistent disregard of student opinion in almost every major issue from South African investments to the Core Curriculum...
Donations to the Steven Biko Fund will provide scholarships for black South Africans to come to Harvard. Earmarking gifts for the regular scholarship fund, an option proposed by the Senior Gift Committee to those who feel they should not give freely to the University, will have minimal impact. Money contributed to the scholarship fund only means that the University will draw less for scholarships from the unrestricted General Fund. Donors are filling the same tub, just from a different side...
...gift to the Biko Fund (which is described more fully in a letter sent to seniors April 24) would be a tangible contribution to South African blacks, and a demonstration--in terms the Corporation understands--that the Class of '79 refuses to support Harvard's involvement with apartheid...