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Evans and Aaron J. Alter '79, a Harvard class marshal, said yesterday that once the fund reaches $5000 it receives an official name, which might encourage Harvard to recruit black South Africans actively...
...said he then presented his new position to the Senior Class Committee in a heated meeting last week. "They felt we knew about the substitution effect from the beginning, and that I was somehow reneging. But after talking to Malin. I felt there was nothing else I could do," Eastman said...
Back in April when the Senior Class Committee voted unanimously to send out a letter publicizing the newly-created Stephen Biko Memorial Fund, there was great hope that the Fund would succeed in bringing attention to an issue of vital concern to Harvard seniors and would directly assist the victims of South Africa's apartheid system. Though no one at the time viewed the Fund in and of itself as an adequate response to the challenge put forward by the Harvard Corporation's investment policy, everyone agreed that it would be a step in the right direction...
...tragic nightmare in South Africa. For this reason, I urge fellow classmates to support a financial boycott and a mailing campaign to the Corporation until an investment policy which clearly opposes the American corporate presence in South Africa is adopted. Michael R. Eastman '79 Fourth Marshal of the Harvard Class...
...Class Committee envisioned three main goals in establishing the Biko Fund. First, it allows individuals who otherwise would not have contributed to make a positive statement against University investment policy. Second, the existence and support of the Fund will be a symbol of discontent and concern over the current situation in South Africa. Third, the Fund will provide direct support for the undergraduate education of black and colored South Africans at Harvard...