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...boycott cut class attendance about 50-60 per cent. About 450 students marched around the River Houses, and the crowd increased to about 700 when Elizabeth Sibeko, United Nations representative to the Pan-Africanist Congress, Guinier and others spoke on the steps of Pusey Library...
Supporters of a boycott linking the issues, however, believe that both issues are displays of University racism, and need to be fought together. "It is very easy to march for South Africa's liberation, but much more difficult to carry a concern for racism in your own life your own education," Cudjoe says...
...coalition representing ten groups. When representatives from the groups met in the basement of Quincy House on April 15, divestiture of Harvard's South African holdings and strengthening of the Afro-American Studies Department emerged as the group's most pressing concerns and they called for a student boycott of classes barely a week later...
Despite the closeness of the date, members of the coalition thought the number of students reached through its member groups would be large enough to give the movement momentum. Many students felt torn in supporting the boycott, however, because they felt the issues were only loosely related in that they both concerned blacks. Students opposed to the boycott also said they believed boycotting would be a statement of support for both issues, although some students either did not support one of the issues, or felt less strongly about one than another. "Sure, I'm for divestiture...
...Arab boycott of Egypt: Has any boycott ever succeeded? I expect the present one will be short-lived. We are brothers. Brothers quarrel but their quarrels don't last long...