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WHEN THE SHANTIES went up in Harvard Yard, so did the hopes of the University's divestment activists. Here was their chance to rally the student body decisively and visibly behind their call for the Corporation to divest itself of stocks in companies which do business in South Africa...
Harvard probably should divest from companies that do business in South Africa if for no other reason than that a clear majority of Black South Africans seem to want it to. But divestment is not the black and white issue its most ardent supporters make...
Last April about 50 students occupied 17 Quincy St. for a day to protest the University's refusal to divest its stock in companies which do business in South Africa. Several of them were given suspended University punishments by the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, a controversial body charged with prosecuting violations...
...said that even if Blacks in South Africawere shown to oppose a U.S. corporate presence inthat country, such opposition would notnecessarily cause Harvard to divest, only topressure companies to withdraw their operations...
Standing in front of the Harvard Yard shantytown yesterday, Eighth Congressional District candidate James Roosevelt Jr. '68 called on Harvard to divest its $416 million in South Africa-related stockholdings...