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...report released Thursday, the Corporation rejected student demands to divest its holdings in banks lending money to the apartheid government, and rejected demands that Harvard support all shareholder resolutions calling on corporations to withdraw operations from South Africa...
During the half-hour interview, Bok reiterated the position on divestiture outlined by the Corporation in its report. He said although it would cost the University a "considerable amount of money" to divest itself of holdings in corporations doing business in South Africa, the potential loss is not the only reason the Corporation is opposed to immediate divestiture...
...think they'll get the Corporation to divest, but I still think it's worthwhile because it's still important to show that students are concerned about these things." David Wilkins, a first-year law student, said yesterday...
...attempt to pressure Harvard to divest itself of its stocks in South Africa "is a very noble aspiration, but students are going about it the wrong way." Richard J. Miller '81 said yesterday...
...survive, and this year many student groups, including the Black Students Association, are calling for Harvard's divestiture of stock in U.S. firms that help uphold the white minority government in South Africa. In 1972, persuasion failed so students took over a building--that also failed to make Harvard divest. Today rumors abound of a possible sit-in if the also assistant to the Corporation's investment all U.S. firms from South Africa, although none of the groups in the United Front, a newly-formed coalition of seven campus anti-apartheid groups, of the Front itself, have announced plans...