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...have acknowledged the Sullivan guidelines as a reasonable set of investment standards, but have failed to pay strict attention to them when deciding how to handle its $2 billion portfolio. Most of the recent protests--including a student hunger strike (see story, page four)--have urged the Corporation to divest itself of all holdings in South Africa...
...been at Harvard, debate on some other campuses has been fierce. At Columbia, the University Senate--a student-faculty body that advises the administration on important issues--overwhelmingly approved a resolution last month urging Columbia to divest itself of nearly $23.5 million worth of stock in companies doing business in South Africa. The recommendation is now under consideration by the university's Board of Trustees...
...simplistic response to say that Harvard should divest from any company" that operates in South Africa, Dallas said, adding "that would be telling the portfolio managers" that the University could not buy stock in 35 percent of U.S. firms...
...candidates ran on a fixed party platform that backed issues such as organizing student workers, involving the student body in faculty tenure decisions, and pressuring Columbia to divest from corporations doing business with South Africa...
...stance is not as harsh as that taken Sunday by the Undergraduate Council, which called on the Corporation to totally divest. The council's representative, chairman Sesha Pratap '83, was not present at last night's meeting and did not sign the HCSL letter...