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Harvard Watch is being run by Robert Weissman '88-89, who is taking a year off to head up the project. Weissman is a member of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee, a group of student activists that pressure the University to divest...
...University does not divest by 1994, the Endowment will donate its funds to Amnesty International and the United Negro College Fund. Until that time, the Endowment monies will be invested in the Calvert Fund, a money-market account with no investments in South Africa-related companies...
...others worked with Tina Smith '83, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Harvard Endowment for Divestiture, who helped them establish the guidelines for their own Endowment. The MIT version is very similar to the Harvard one, but they have only allowed MIT seven years to divest completely, as opposed to the 20 allowed in Harvard's charter...
...demonstration, organized by the Southern African Solidarity Committee (SASC), also urged Harvard to totally divest its remaining $360 million in similar investments...
Despite Harvard's recent announcement that itwill divest of one-third of its holdings in SouthAfrica, Seidman said the divestment issue is stillvery much alive...