Word: divesting
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...doesn't prove Harvard's activity was the cause, but it certainly dogs prove you don't have to divest to have an impact on a company," Michael Blumenfeld, secretary to the Corporation committee for Corporate Responsibility (CCSR), said yesterday...
About a month ago, a Crimson writer cynically proclaimed that Harvard's refusal to divest from companies which operate in South Africa was effectively a dead issue. Pointing to the cold reaction of Cabot House students at a recent student-faculty dinner and to the obstinacy of Bok and the Harvard Corporation, Peter J. Howe all but said that students should abandon the issue...
Fortunately, not all people think like Howe! Sours 150 members of the Harvard community attended the recent open meeting held by the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ASCR). With near unanimity the 25 speakers at the meeting called on the ASCR to recommend the Harvard Corporation to divest. This spring the Endowment for Divestiture campaign will raise funds from the senior class to protest the university's refusal to divest. In fact, the issue is not dead and will not die as long as apartheid remains the policy of the regime in South Africa and as long as Harvard, through...
...hope that in-fighting will not discourage students from supporting divestiture. There is, at the center of all this, a moral imperative which should never be allowed to waiver from sight Harvard will divest. Jill C. Violet...
...lunchtime march, which attracted approximately 60 students at its largest, began with a series of speeches demanding that the University divest from companies doing business in South Africa...