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...Endowment for Divestiture to remove Offutt from his position as President of the Endowment. By stating at an Undergraduate Council meeting that "we ought not to endorse this type of political activity," and by telling The Crimson, "I feel that the University must have good reasons not to divest," Offutt has made it clear that he has no commitment to divestment. Offutt's record shows that he has only sought to hinder the efforts of the Endowment, rather than aid them. There are many individuals on the Undergraduate Council who would be willing to replace him and actively support...
...moral equivalence, the heretical notion that human rights practices should be judged on one scale. The editorial asserts that this is simply meant to "confuse the issue," and Hirschorn asserts that the approach is a ploy, to distract from the fact that conservatives can not argue the issue of divestment on its own merits. To the contrary, the Salient has printed lengthy, reasoned articles on why divestment from South Africa is a counter-productive gesture, but they have never elicited any response. The divestment movement here is hardly concerned with the effectiveness of their proposal, and base their appeals solely...
Salient prexy Tom Firestone '86, with what can only be feigned indignation, huffs on at length about Harvard's massive investments not just in Russia, but the "EVIL EMPIRE" (excessive capitalization for rhetorical effect is the author's). "Failure to divest will prove that the Corporation is as hypocritical as the protesters to whose pressure it has already succumbed," Firestone concludes, as yet another thunderbolt of moral indignation cracks over the heads of the keepers of Harvard's billions...
...divestiture movement always falls down: If divestiture cannot be justified on purely moral grounds, it cannot be justified at all, because its results are impossible to predict; and if it can be justified solely on moral grounds, then there is every reason to support the Salient, and indeed to divest from firms operating in scores of nations, perhaps the U.S. included...
HARVARD'S RIGHT WING has opened a new front in the effort to subvert attention from the divestment issue. In the most recent issue of the think-tank-subsidized Harvard Salient, editor Thomas Firestone '86 calls on the University's governing Corporation to divest from USSR-related firms, and in so doing to cease "bankrolling the Kremlin." But what the Salient, the Republican Club, and individual conservatives are really trying to do is confuse the issue with meaningless comparisons which create a false reductio ad absurdam...