Word: clearings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Harvard has not adopted a policy of immediate and blanket withdrawal, divestiture, excuse me. Indeed, many think that's probably unwise. I think what unites people is the concern that the direction of Harvard policy is pointed the wrong way. This I think is illustrated very clearly in the ACSR reports of last March and this January. I think what we're looking for is a more aggressive, forward posture on behalf of the University, toward this issue, one that makes it clear to the corporations that the burden of proof rests on them to show their activities actively...
...proceed with a policy that does not make clear to the corporations that there are potential consequences to follow upon their failure to respond to earlier demands or positions taken by the University, if, in other words, at the end of our chain of articulated steps, there exists no exit, only a kind of crying in the wind, then we fail in the end, either to communicate our moral stance or to exercise what little power in the most efficacious way that we have in this situation...
...sell their stock, and get out of their hair at shareholders' meetings. But even here. I think, the notion that holding the threat of divestment over their heads will be a threat is an empirical proposition which perhaps we should try to check. It is by no means a clear one, on the basis of conversations I have...
Tahi L. Mottl, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies, likened the conditions of black women in South Africa to the conditions of people living under slavery, and urged Bok to make "an unambiguous public statement" on South Africa. "A clear and succinct message from the President will have a tremendous impact" in South Africa, Mottl said...
Captain Geoff Stiles, who failed to clear his first vault height in rain-soaked Pennsylvania, came back to win the pole vault and tie for second in the high jump yesterday...