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Although Vorenberg stopped short of saying Harvard should divest its $460 million invested in American companies operating in South Africa, he disagreed with the Reagan Administration's policy of constructive engagement. That policy relies on cooperation with the South African government to advance human rights...
...time at Harvard, ("Behind the Mass Hall Mystique: A Closer Look at President Bok," Crimson, January 10). President Bok is quoted as saying, "I'm sure that I've spent many more hours on South Africa than any of those people who are criticizing me for it [not divesting]." I grant that he has spent more time than any individual student at Harvard, but his campus critics are not alone. We are attempting to support the struggle for human dignity in South Africa as the leaders of that struggle have informed us we should. Does President Bok think...
WHAT does a company have to do to make the University divest from...
Does the University have a moral obligation to divest from a company in which it owns 65,300 shares and which is involved in questionable practices within the United States? Such a company is Phelps-Dodge Corporation, a mining company with operations in Arizona, Texas Chile, South Africa, and elsewhere. Phelps-Dodge is faced with a 17-month strike by its workers in the United States, and the evidence seems to indicate that union busting by Phelps-Dodge is behind the strike...
Robert Fram, the president of the Law Review, said that the move to divest came as a "pleasant surprise. I didn't know that some of the members of the board has changed their mind...