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...individual. This is exactly the historical gestalt my letter opposes. I do not equate Harvard University with the "Bok regime" (whatever that is). The administration is not Harvard University. Students, staff and alumni are together responsible for Harvard's collaboration with apartheid. Together we share the responsibility to divest. Richard H. Drayton...
...Kahn in his Sept. 25 editorial piecce attempts to defend President Bok and the Harvard Corporation's refusal to totally divest of South Africa-related stock, and to caricature the divestiture movement as self-righteous 'Bok-bashers.' It is striking that nowhere in four column feet of text is there any reference to South African conditions nor any mention of the expressed will of the oppressed majority. Kahn's ignorance of these can be the only reason for his myopic analysis...
...perhaps Bok also forgets that "threatening freedom of speech" flips both ways. Refusing to divest, snapping back at Faculty members like Stanley Hoffmann, Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France, at Faculty meetings, and refusing to speak to students at an open forum also threaten freedom of speech. Bok has clearly told pro-divestment activists that he does not believe them, that in fact he thinks they are crazy reactionaries...
WHAT KIND of freedom of speech is Bok worried about? He is afraid that if we divest in an attempt to impose our will on giant and profitable companies like IBM, then those companies may attempt to impose their will...
...only effective moral stand left for the University is to divest. Most Black South Africans call for divestment and one day we hope that the Black leaders of South Africa will remember that someone listened to them...