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...some reason, Harvard students and members of the council were to decide that students should not have a say in whether or not the school should divest from companies with holdings in South Africa--that this should be left completely up to the seven members of "the Corporation"--okay. But this should at least be decided through discussion of the issue, rather than by ignoring...
Brandeis University students yesterday erected a shantytown and said they would live in the plywood shacks until the Waltham school agrees to divest of its South Africa linked investments...
...UNDERGRADUATE Council referendum asks what appear to be two very simple questions. The first question is, "Harvard University ought to divest completely from any institution that does business in the Republic of South Africa." The second is, "The Undergraduate Council shall support and encourage the majority view on the preceding proposition through appropriate means...
...Harvard University ought to divest completely from any institution that does business in the Republic of South Africa...
...obvious from the wording of the referendum that its subject is divestiture: "Harvard University ought to divest completely from any institution that does business in the Republic of South Africa." It is also to some extent a message to the Undergraduate Council, in that a second question instructs the Council to "support and encourage the majority view on the preceding question through appropriate means." Only in an extremely limited way does this referendum reflect on Brian Offutt's leadership, and then because that is how some of the members will interpret the results...