Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PORNOGRAPHY IS STIRRING up debate all across America these days. Right-wing and feminist groups are burying their usual differences to team up and fight the subjugation of women in various media. Unfortunately, the Cambridge City Council has thwarted valuable discussion on the topic this fall by refusing last week to place an anti-pornography referendum on the ballot...
...Fight for Socialism: Marxist Class Series-"Socialism vs. Capitalism," Emerson 305, 7:30 to 9:00pm, sponsored by Friends of the Spartacus Youth League...
Secondly, the writer states that Bok's $1 million fund is again a contradiction of earlier statements. He claims that Bok's refusal "to wield economic power" against those Harvard dislikes is violated by the establishment of the fund, as it would be used to fight apartheid. Wrong. The purpose of the $1 million fund is not to wield economic or political power but to support educational and individual efforts. This is clearly different from using Harvard's multi-billion dollar endowment as a political bludgeoning device. Bok has never stated that Harvard cannot allow educational objectives to filter outside...
...current conditions. He, as everyone else, responds to pressures, and rightly so. But the fact that he has formulated an educational and national stance which rivals that of any public figure interested in South Africa, and has devoted considerable funding to create a productive way in which Harvard can fight the segregation, deserves credit. We can quibble about consistency in the evolution of Harvard's policy. We can credit Bok's moves to national and local pressures. Or we can continue to artificially divide people who care about South Africa and to impair cooperation, but these are unproductive tasks...
...Corporation, which runs Harvard's investment portfolio supports the Sullivan Principles for American companies providing guidelines for equality in the workplace in South Africa. Now, the Corporation has set upa $1 million fund to help Black South Africans and members of the Harvard community in their attempt to fight apartheid...