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...Finally divest. Outside pressure on Harvard decision-makers under a more open system should force the University to live up to its moral responsibility and refuse to do business with firms in South Africa...
Although alumni anti-apartheid activists were encouraged by last year's results, they said yesterday that losses in the most recent election might stall efforts to force the University to divest of its $168 million in South Africa-related stocks...
...will go to the University if it sells all stocks in companies that do business in South Africa--did better than its organizers expected. Students involved with E4D say that seniors have pledged $2000 to the $26,000 fund, which will go to local charities if Harvard does not divest...
...those who have worked to build their university. Listening to activists and taking their viewpoints seriously is not the same as agreeing with them, as the staff implies. While Harvard should not ignore ethical concerns in investment, the administration should not be faulted simply because it refuses to divest. Disagreement with the mean to an end does not mean disagreement with the end, as some of the three million Black South Africans who have lost their jobs to divestment might tell the staff...
...although Harvard, in its refusal to divest of its South African-related stocks, may not have been part of this pressure in the past, Tutu said it was not yet too late for the University to take this initiative against the apartheid government...