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...going to publicize it. If you're going to say. "Is Harvard afraid to admit what it has done?" No. If you are going to say. "Should Harvard wage a publicity campaign in order to try to pressure these banks?" I would say, no. That's not why I divest these loans. I divest those loans because I am uncomfortable that Harvard's money is being used for those purposes. I am not advocating that policy because I think Harvard ought to use its economic muscle to force corporations into changing their policy. I don't advocate that course...
Despite statements several weeks ago from members of the Corporation that it will consider revising Harvard's current policy committing the Corporation to divest of investments in banks extending loans to the South African government, ACSR members have received no notification of the Corporation's intentions along those lines...
...that it can influence these companies by voting on shareholder resolutions--a ludicrous assertion when one considers that no such resolution has ever passed over management's objections. Few get even 5% of the votes. The influence of these resolutions is practically nonexistent. A stronger step would be to divest publicly, but Harvard wants desperately to avoid alienating corporate friends and to avoid allowing social responsibility to interfere significantly with hard-nosed investment decisions...
PRINCETON, N.J.--Princeton students last week protested Princeton's refusal to divest its Citicorp stocks, and vowed to continue daily marches on campus until the end of the semester...
...world rife with oppression and misery. The obvious link between the subjugation of the country's Black population and our corporate brand of capitalism provided an easy target for the self-righteous indignation that is the unique province of student protest. There were cries of anger for Harvard to divest all its holdings in corporations dealing with South Africa. Students responded with moral outrage to charges that such an action would have no effect on corporate policy...