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With the same determination as his more notorious conservative counterparts at Dartmouth, Kashani frequently has assumed the role of a foil to many anti-apartheid protesters on campus. Instead, he believes that Harvard should divest from companies doing business not with South Africa, but the Soviet Union...
Meanwhile, the University continues to refuse to divest from 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...
Harvard still refuses to divest from corporations doing business in South Africa. Instead of making the morally right move, it hides behind half arguments and makeshift programs, saying that the University needs to maintain a voice in that nation. Well, why don't they invest more in such corporations and gain a larger voice? Because even the administration knows that would be immoral. Divestment is difficult and will require time and energy, but such is the nature of moral choices...
There is, I believe, an alternative to shanties that would be much more effective. SASC should practice what it preaches and divest itself from Harvard. Confused...
Lecturer on Education Joseph L. Featherstone '62, who drafted the letter, said the faculty members who signed it advocated a plan which would allow the University to divest gradually. Explaining that the faculty members had the University's interests in mind as well as the oppressed Blacks in South Africa, he said, "This isn't just a tantrum...