Word: divesting
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...Radical Arms Troop, a singing group of six students who took part in the 1969 protests, drew cheers from the vocal audience for such lyrics as "ROTC, keeping all the people in slavery," and "It's the same bosses here as in Pretoria...Listen, Derek Bok, divest your racist stock...
HRAAA Director Robert Wolff'54 last week indicated the force Tutu can bring to Harvard's divestment movement. "I look forward with great anticipation to the moment when Derek Bok attempts to explain in front of Archbishop Tutu why it is in Blacks' best interest not to divest," he said. "I think the University's position will crumble at that moment...
...recent years, Harvard/Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (H/RAAA) has focused on the alumni-elected Board as a means of forcing the University to divest of its $230.9 million South Africa-related holdings. By submitting an independent slate of candidates and winning seats on the 30-member board, H/RAAA members hoped to gain enough support among the overseers to force a vote on Harvard's divestment policy...
Specifically, H/RAAA activists hoped that the Board could vote to force Harvard's seven-member Corporation, which decides University financial policy, to divest completely from South Africa. But even after winning three seats, H/RAAA activists were unsuccessful in securing such a vote by the Overseers, who traditionally rubber-stamp all Corporation decisions...
...look forward with great anticipation to the moment when [President] Derek Bok attempts to explain in front of Archbishop Tutu why it is in Blacks' best interest not to divest," Robert P. Wolff '54, H/RAAA director, said this week. "I think the University's position will crumble at that moment...