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...divestiture movement is developing into the Viet Nam issue of the late 1970s," says exiled black South African Dennis Brutus, professor of English at Northwestern, and a leader of the campaign to get universities to ditch stock of companies doing business in South Africa. The universities of Massachusetts and Wisconsin, among others, have responded to student demands that such stock be sold to protest South Africa's apartheid policies, while debate over the issue has caused demonstrations at Princeton, Stanford and Columbia. But in an open letter to students last week, Harvard President Derek Bok presented his university...
Nteta, two South Africans--Dennis Brutus, an exiled South African poet, and Donald Woods, a Nieman Fellow and exiled South African journalist--and Mary Nolan, associate professor of History, criticized Harvard's policy toward its South Africa related investments, saying divestiture would help end apartheid...
Following the "teach-out" more than 300 people marched behind Woods, Brutus, Cannon Burgess Carr, secretary general of the All-American Union of Churches, through the Yard and Harvard Square to the steps of the Kennedy School...
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...
Donald Woods, exiled South African editor and Neiman Fellow and Dennis Brutus, a South African poet and chief organizer of the international sports boycott against South Africa, will speak at a "Teach-Out" and rally today...