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...wake of controversy engulfing apartheid-ridden South Africa, some students and alumni called on the University to divest of its South Africa-related stock...
...profound belief that there is only oneway to achieve this: we must divest ourselves ofour egotistical anthropocentrism, our habit ofseeing ourselves as masters of the universe whocan do whatever occurs to us. We must discover anew respect for what transcends us: for theuniverse, for the earth, for nature, for life andfor reality. Our respect for other people, forother nations and for other cultures, can onlygrow from a humble respect for the cosmic orderand from an awareness that we are a part of it,that we share in it and that nothing of what we dois last, but rather becomes part...
During Slichter's tenure, the University applied a complex set of principles, which include whether the social conduct of a company was beneficial to its employees. Largely as a result of the committee's analysis, the University decided to divest itself from all its tobacco holdings, while still maintaining an interest in some companies who dealt with apartheidridden South Africa...
Even with the disintegration of the Warsaw Pact, the U.S. cannot divest itself of interest in NATO in order to concentrate on the Americas. It would be wonderful if the local hegemons in every region of the world would take care of their area's particular problems, but it doesn't always work out that way. "Standing up for what's right" isn't what the Europeans are best at, historically speaking. At this point, it looks like the U.S. will have to lead the way in Bosnia and in Haiti...
...debates and protests at Harvard over divestment appear very small in this context, but we can be proud of those students here who tried to force Harvard to divest from its business interests in South Africa. Though their efforts had little success in changing the University's policies, it was these students and others like them who keep the pressure on for a moral policy...