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...give money to E4D, you're just giving Harvard money anyway (or Phillips Brooks House, if Harvard doesn't divest by 2003). But I suppose E4D acts as a slave for those rich limousine liberals who want to give some of their millions to Harvard, without offending their sensitive, trendy, politically-correct activist consciences...
...Harvard; the former ROTC building now houses a day-care center. Army officers are no longer granted the course curriculum. We view this as a considerable improvement, and a vindication of the goals of the '69 strike. However, Harvard has become nationally and internationally known for its refusal to divest its holdings in companies doing business in South Africa. Long after many other universities, city and state governments, pension funds and other institutions have fully divested, long after Rev. Sullivan and other advocates of gradual change in South Africa have come to support full divestment, Harvard still holds $250 million...
...students, who are calling on the University to divest of its $163 million in South Africa-related investments, spent the day in the Appleton Chapel singing religious songs, praying, talking and listening to speeches. They were initially accompanied by local union organizers, clergy and undergraduates...
Tutu, a Nobel laureate and prominent opponent of South Africa's apartheid policy, is running for the Overseers on a divestment slate sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid. In several visits to Harvard, Tutu has called on the University to divest and recently said he would give back his 1979 honorary degree if the investment policies were not changed...
...students said one of the specificinstigations for their action was Divinity SchoolDean Ronald Thiemann's refusal to publicly call onthe University to divest...