Word: divest
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Scondras is backed in the Overseers campaign by the Harvard Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid, a dissident slate of candidates seeking to force the University to divest its remaining holdings in South Africa...
...most, the "B.U. Divest" sign seemed innocuous. But not to Silber. Every time the loose-lipped administrator turned around to admire the view, the offending message called out to Silber like a blight on the landscape. Bruce Springsteen posters and foreign flags were one thing, but posters criticizing the university were quite another...
...comments at the meeting have forced me to significantly reconsider the current strategy for encouraging Harvard to divest. The traditional tactics of rallies, letter-writing campaigns and petitions have not worked. What else can be done...
...this alone will not persuade Bok and the Corporation to divest. After all, the comprehensive, well-argued Undergraduate Council report of 1986--presumably the type of "rational argument" that Bok wants--has yet to change his mind...
...have offered plenty of rational arguments for divestment: the vast majority of South African opposition leaders call for the international isolation of South Africa. Many of them, including Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, specifically call upon Harvard to divest. Isolating South Africa has worked to effect positive change. Harvard's divesting will add significantly to that isolation. Divestment will not affect the quality of education at Harvard, and so on, ad nauseum...