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Last May, the Faculty Council revived the CRR--which had not heard a case since 1975--to decide the cases of about 18 students involved in two spring anti-apartheid protests, a sit-in at the home of Harvard's governing boards and a blockade of a South African diplomat at Lowell House...
...Board will meet shortly to discuss the complaints about the letter to the 119 and to begin disciplinary proceedings for three students involved in another spring protest, the blockade of a South African diplomat in the Lowell House Junior Common Room...
...keeping with their general moderate approach, activists are largely apologetic about the event that brought them the most criticism from administrators and the most attention both within and outside of the campus. Leaders of the movement say the temporary blockade last spring of a visiting South African diplomat in a Lowell House room was unplanned and the result of an uncontrollable crowd. They point to the rally and sit-in--both peaceful events--as the successes of the year...
Last spring, South African diplomat Abe Hoppenstein paid a visit to Harvard to give a talk to the Conservative Club, and in the process sparked an divestment protest and rally which turned unusually violent. Hoppenstein was asked by the College body charged with disciplining the students involved in the protest-turned-blockade to return to the scene of the alleged crime, not to talk politics, but to discuss his version of the incident, in which about 200 students blocked his exit from Lowell House. Hoppenstein, however, declined the invitation, saying that he did not "want to get involved in domestic...
While some observers thought Assad was reacting to, rather than shaping last week's events, at least one Western diplomat saw a shrewd logic to the Syrian leader's actions. "Each time there is fighting the Syrians allow it to go on for a few days before stepping in and separating the combatants," he said. "And each time this happens, Lebanon seems to become more dependent on Damascus. Perhaps the Syrians are encouraging the fighting to achieve their larger goals...