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Planning for the concert began in the second week of the school year when Folktree, the producers responsible for the Anti-Apartheid Concerts aimed at divestment (HarvAid) last February, contacted the Irish Cultural Society...
Only a handful of musical events livened up an otherwise lackluster year. HarvAid brought Pete Seeger and many too-rarely-seen folk artists to Sanders Theatre for a two-night divestment benefit. The Din and Tonics gave away free gewgaws, such as cheap toys and cans of WD-40, to everyone in their Sanders audience. Sophomore Jonathan Shecter started a rap group, B.M.O.C., and released a single about Harvard that showed surprising candor about his creative motivations: "I'm a Harvard undergrad, a scholarly scholar/And I'm using rap music to make me dollars." Musically, these events weren't much...
...HarvAid: Songs for a Free South Africa," which is sponsored by Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA)and features several folk and gospel singers, is nearly sold out. All twelve hundred tickets for the Sunday night concert have been sold, and half of the tickets for the Monday concert remain, organizers said...
Seeger, Near and Paxton did not attend the press conference, but sent taped messages explaining their involvement in HarvAid and the fight against apartheid...
...proceeds from HarvAid will go to HRAAA, an organization of alumni activists pressuring Harvard to divest its holdings in South Africa. HRAAA over the past three years has sponsored alternative slates of prodivestment candidates for the Board of Overseers. Three candidiates have been elected from these slates in the past two elections...