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...Tutu says that Harvard's voice counts, then Bok should make sure that Harvard uses that voice. And if Tutu says Harvard should divest, Bok should at least consider the final step of total divestment...
...statements by Tutu and White-head on Sunday had offered activists the first hope in more than a year that the alumni-elected Board of Over-seers, which votes on Harvard policy, might reconsider its stance that Harvard should not divest completely of South African stock...
Murphy then called upon Harvard to divest fromits remaining holdings in companies that dobusiness in South Africa, which currently total$138 million...
What a difference a few months make: South African Archbishop Tutu's candidacy for the Board of Overseers created quite a fuss among alumni last year, and both sides of the divestment issue took turns at dishing out the rhetoric. Robert P. Wolff '54, who directs the pro-divestment alumni group which nominated Tutu, often said Tutu's mere presence on the Board could force Harvard to divest completely from South Africa-related investments...
...slate of candidates nominated for the Board of Overseers by Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA). The group has nominated candidates for the past four years in the hopes that the Board, which advises the seven-member Harvard Corporation on University policy, would vote to divest...