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Meanwhile, the University continues to refuse to divest of companies that do business in South Africa, despite the growing bloodshed and oppression in that racially divided nation by the white minority government. The University has shunned discussing that issue with interested members of the Harvard community. Instead, students, faculty, alumni and staff have been forced to build a symbolic shanty in the Yard and takeover buildings, in order to remind University officials of the regime Harvard's investments support...
...Well, at least we know they're not all Jews," one Cambridge police officer said to another, as he caught sight of a man--not affiliated with the protesters--bearing a placard which read "America Divest from Israel...
...need for clearer norms for safeguarding academic independence is particularly evident at Harvard. Real-world controversies and outside pressures have become a routine part of life at the University. Debates and demonstrations over public policy issues are frequent and often furious. And pressure to divest stock in companies that do business in countries with repressive governments has brought those debates back to Harvard's corporate home. Meanwhile, United States government agencies that provide funding for academic research are attempting to close the door on free and open scholarship, and the need for universities to lobby in support of federal...
...months ago the alumni submitted the complaint to the attorney general charging that Harvard had unfairly campaigned against three candidates nominated by petition for a place on the election ballot for overseers. The three were running for the 30-member governing body on a platform calling on Harvard to divest of its holdings in companies that do business in South Africa...
With the decisions of other large bodies, including states like Massachusetts and California, to divest, the passage of stringent sanctions by the House of Representatives and serious consideration of similar measures in the Republican-controlled Senate, increasing public concern for the plight of Black South Africans, and the general repudiation of constructive engagement, the time is ripe for divestment. The moral imperative to take such a step remains strong...