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Students, alumni, faculty and staff must continue to pressure Harvard to divest, but the intensity and character of that pressure does not need to continue to escalate as it has done over the past year. The time and resources of divestment activists could be better spent raising money and generating publicity for groups directly involved in fighting apartheid...
...head of the Corporation's investment responsibility committee said yesterday that he credited in part pressure from Harvard's student and alumni protest movement for the University's recent decision to divest of about one-third of its South Africa-related investments...
...review of Harvard's portfolio following the adoption of that policy ended in Thursday's announcement that the Corporation will divest over the next 12 months of $79 million in stock and $92 million in bonds in such firms as Exxon, Ford and Mobil...
...very clear that the policy we have in place was shaped by students," MacDougall told local reporters at ameeting in Holyoke Center. "We are not unmindfulof these pressures" on Harvard to divest of itsSouth Africa-related stock...
Habermas was introduced by President Derek C. Bok and addressed such Harvard notables as Conant University Professor John Rawls, Government Department Chairman Robert D. Putnam, Ford Professor of Social Sciences Daniel Bell, and Professor of Law Duncan M. Kennedy. A group of protesters chanted "Divest" as Bok called the lecturer to the floor...