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Naively, I hadn't even thought about the prospect of an anti-apartheid boycott until I read the "Sports People" column in last Sunday's New York Times. In a non-threatening tidbit, the Times reported that Harry Edwards, an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, announced that he would lead a boycott if South African athletes were allowed to compete...
...must be pretty dense not to have thought of it sooner, especially when I learned from the article that Mr. Edwards was the organizer of the protest by Black athletes of the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. That boycott didn't work as well as he had hoped, but he probably gained some satisfaction from the fact that two Black athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, held up their black-gloved, fist-clenched hands in the "Black power" salute while on the medal stand after winning the gold and bronze, respectively, in the 200-meter dash...
...Edwards, who predicted the American boycott of the 1980 Olympics in Moscow and the Soviet boycott of the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, told a symposium on ethics in college athletics that the next boycott will be led by both Black and white athletes protesting South Africa's racist system of apartheid...
Nonetheless, reforms of these problems can only be achieved if students join the committee. In 1978, members of the freshman class temporarily lifted the boycott in order to push for reforms in the CRR. These students made some gains--including public transcripts and an equal student-Faculty balance on the committee. It is time for the classes of '86-'88 to pick up where the class of '81 left...
Most importantly, it should be noted that a student boycott of the CRR will achieve nothing, thus far it has only led Harvard to grant the CRR full power to function without students sitting on the committee. In the 13 times that the Faculty Council has called upon the CRR since 1969, the Council has never rescined its decision to convene it in the year would effectively disband the committee is nothing but romantic idealism. It is time for students to stop washing their morality laden hands...