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Without warning, and without informing other groups of their plans, seven students announced on April 18 that they were beginning a water and vitamins only hunger strike to force the University to divest...
...still too early to tell whether this particular form of protest will be any more effective than previous efforts to force the University to divest. But the Endowment for Divestiture clearly represents a whole new phase in the long-evolving divestiture protest movement...
...council's tendency to follow the quick-and-easy way of reacting to student concerns that has inevitably caused past student governments to fail. The most obvious symptoms were the council's endorsement this spring of several "political" positions. In responding to the call for Harvard to divest from holdings in businesses operating in South Africa and the Food Workers' Union demands during ongoing contract negotiations, the council supported groups without protracted debate, often basing its decisions on incomplete or inaccurate information...
...past decade, Radcliffe College's running of its own $40 million endowment has attracted virtually no attention at all. But quietly, without headlines or fanfare, Radcliffe has established procedures for handling the issue of divestiture, and it appears likely that Radcliffe will soon begin discussions of whether to divest from companies conducting business in South Africa...
Radcliffe first confronted the question of how to resolve the ethical issues surrounding its investment policy in 1978, when Harvard began discussing what to do with its stock holdings in Citibank, which was making direct loans to the South African government. After Harvard decided to divest from Citibank, Radcliffe officials began to look more closely at their own portfolio, according to Elizabeth Heffernan '54, chairman of Radcliffe's Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility (ACIR...