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...news reports in The Crimson of Wednesday's South Africa teach-out and of the dedication of the Steve Biko Memorial Library unfortunately failed to mention the issue of Afro-American Studies. Afro-American Studies was not only the subject of a featured speech by Afro-American Studies Department (AASD) concentrator Rick Guthrie, but was also high-lighted throughout the day as the main example of the institutional racism ox Harvard University. The news stories also neglected the role of the KSG Black Caucus in initiating the march to the Kennedy School and encouraging the renaming of the library. Pamoja...
...senior class committee voted yesterday to give seniors contributing to the annual senior gift fund the option of earmarking their money for a Steven Biko memorial fund...
After speeches by Guthrie and Brutus the demonstrators marched into the Public Affairs forum past surprised administrators and police and chanted "Harvard Out Now" and "Biko" simultaneously. In the forum, with arms raised and joined, the demonstrators symbolically renamed the library "The Steven Biko Memorial Library...
...Biko Library: Make the library a monument to the anti-apartheid efforts of college students across the country. Ratification by those on high is guaranteed. Biko's name symbolizes martyrdom in the fight for human rights and no liberal-minded (however conservative) member of the University administration could in good conscience put the nix on this header. Time Magazine caption: "Biko Tops Engelhard in Christening Contest at Harvard...
...masses of the South African people probably don't know what corporations are, but give a leader 20 minutes of free speech, which they haven't got at the moment, and the people will want withdrawal. Go to the leaders: what have [Nelson] Mandela, [Robert] Sobukwe, [Albert] Luthuli, and Biko said? What they have said is what the people will unswervingly want. What they have said is that they want foreign corporations out of their country...