Word: hillels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...acronym SASC stands for the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee. SASC neither favors nor opposes divestment from any other regime. A majority of SASC members, however, probably oppose the Soviet and Chilean regimes, and many have been active in organizations like Amnesty International, the Hillel's Committee on Oppressed Jewry, and Students Supporting Solidarity. In any event, if Harvard divested from companies that do business in South Africa they would, by the same gesture, divest of all of their stock in companies that are in the Soviet Union and Chile. They are the same companies...
...April 7 article entitled "Students Spend Break With Soviets," Andrea Fastenberg '86, a Harvard Hillel student travelling to Soviet Union, was misquoted as saying her group had smuggled material into the country. Although the group brought religious literature and food stuffs for Soviet Jews, none of the material was smuggled past authorities...
...women from the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel visited the Soviet Union during spring break to aid religious dissidents in major Soviet cities, smuggling in religious articles and food for Soviet Jews unable to leave the country...
...sincerely hoping it will happen again next year," Shaw said, adding that a future UCC goal would be a meeting house similar to Hillel House, where Christians could eat meals and conduct prayer services...
...fasters have taken refuge against possible administrative intervention by moving into Hillel House, the only building on campus not owned by the school. They are eating no solid food and plan to fast "until it's counterproductive to continue," Abramowitz said...