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During the last decade, activist overseers have challenged the Corporation's rule, urging the University to divest of its South Africa-related stock. In the mid-1980s, Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA) began nominating candidates by petition to run against the University's official slate...
...council representative Randal S. Jeffrey '91, who moved the resolution, said "it's good when it goes down but they should have a position of complete divestment and we shouldn't congratulate them until they fully divest...
Further, our return this fall was marked by the announcement that Harvard would divest all of its stockholdings in tobacco companies. Neat, huh? Harvard really seems willing to put itself on the line for the sake of pursuing the common good, upholding standards of ethical institutional behavior and serving as a model for others to follow...
...WHICH group should Americans believe in deciding whether to divest? The ANC that supports divestment? Or Inkatha and those Black South Africans who stand to lose their jobs from additional sanctions...
...coalition of five University minority student organizations has endorsed a statement urging Harvard to "completely divest itself from all companies doing business in South Africa...