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...invitation was made through a petition, reportedly signed by 2000 students and faculty members, which called on Bok to make a public appearence and to divest of Harvard's $416 million in South Africa-related stock...
...Divesting would also threaten the autonomy ofHarvard, said Bok. "When you start to do that[divest], there are a lot of things which you mayhold dear that are going to be in jeopardy," saidBok, adding that corporation might attempt toexert economic and political influence overpolicies of the University if Harvard were toattempt to do the same over them...
However, a crucial difference between elections and the divestment movement is that members of SASC and other activists are asking for a fairly severe departure from the status quo by a private institution. Unlike the practice of electing public officials, the action of divestment would be unprecedented and unique. Given this, pluralities are not enough; a truly credible demand that the University divest needs a real student majority, which hasn't been forthcoming...
...minds--or at least our common sense--to act through focused, non-offensive methods. If we want to show Black South Africans our sympathy, let's not objectify hem or mock their suffering, sensitive families in America. If we want to pressure the Harvard administration to divest, let's act directly, instead of play acting in fron of University Hall like over-eager children...
...petitioning the powers that be for the right to build our own set of shanties in the Yard. These will replicas of the Quad to protest our being Quaded, to request that Harvard divest from itself for letting the Quad get into bad condition. In our "Statement of Policy" we wish to stress that our premise for our demands is that Harvard has let much of the Quad become rundown, has threatened to cut-off badly needed renovations for lack of funds, and has made that Quad situation much worse than it already...