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...charge that Harvard's South African internship program will help stifle change by fostering a Black elite, Master of Eliot House Alan E. Heimert '49 sardonically replies, "What's Harvard here...
...Heimert, the president's special aide on South African affairs, believes that the recently implemented internship program, which would send Harvard students to South African educational institutions, is a logical extension of the university's philosophy of unencumbered scholarship to that nation. For the past five years, the Cabot Professor of American Literature has headed Harvard's South African fellowhip program, which sponsors Black South African scholars at Harvard. In that postition he travels to South Africa several times a year and makes contacts with educators there...
...seemed to make sense when a committee that is chaired by Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 and controls Harvard's $1 million South Africa aid fund, viewed Heimert as the expert on South African education and sent him there in November to publicize the internship program...
...Most of us don't have a clue about South Africa. We were depending on Professor Heimert for information," said committee member and Lecturer at the School of Public Health Richard A. Cash...
...youth can do social work. It is a country where the schoolchildren and teachers in Black schools are on strike, and where education is under direct and indirect state control. It is a situation in which you have to take sides. Let us hope that Dan Steiner and Alan Heimert when they go to South Africa later on this month do not lose Harvard or themselves in the crossfire...