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Black students takeover Massachusetts Hall, which houses the office of the president, to protest the Universities refusal to divest of stock in Gulf Oil. The students charged that the oil company was supporting the colonial government of Portugal in Angola. Bok worked out of a separate office for seven days. Eventually the students left on their own volition; no arrests were made...
...first major anti-apartheid action in several years, student activists push aside a University police officer standing guard at 17 Quincy St. and takeover the headquarters of the Harvard Corporation to protest the governing body's refusal to divest of South Africa-linked holdings...
...three of the speakers said that United States universities have a moral responsibility to divest of their holdings in corporations that do business with South Africa...
Abramowitz, the first to challenge the BUbanner policy, late last March hung a 4-by-10-ft.sign urging the school to divest its $22.3 millionworth of stock in companies doing business inSouth Africa. University employees removed thebanner after Abramowitz refused...
...greater good. But I cannot go as far as Mr Graham in categorically condemning any actions of civil disobedience. In this specific instance the protesters were wrong, but that does not mean that all acts of civil disobedience are unjustifiable. If the goal is for the University to divest completely, then activists should choose forms of protest both more expedient and more justifiable than trespass or illegal restraint to accomplish...