Word: hraaa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last four years, however, a pesky group called the Harvard Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA) has shaken things up a bit by nominating its own pro-divestment slate of candidates to oppose the official candidates nominated by the Alumni Association...
Harvard took off the kid gloves during this year's overseers race after HRAAA nominated South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu. Despite apocalyptic predictions by some Harvard officials and alumni, Tutu was elected to the Board and became its fourth HRAAA member...
Although the Board traditionally has acted as a formal rubber-stamp for the Corporation--the body that takes care of Harvard's day-to-day operation--HRAAA has hoped to elect enough overseers to force a Board vote on the University's South Africa-related investment policy. With Tutu, there are now four HRAAA overseers, as well as several Alumni Association overseers who have said they favor divestment...
Despite the defeat of the four other HRAAA candidates for the Board this year, HRAAA officials have predicted that Tutu's presence will give the Board a definitive pro-divestment slant. Some even predicted that the University would divest its $163.8 million in South Africa-related investments within the year...
DURING the campaign, Alumni Association officials attacked the HRAAA effort for its attempts to produce "single-issue" candidates. A single-issue overseer would be a bad overseer, it is true, but it is silly to think that HRAAA overseers have limited their interests solely to divestment when so many other important issues are raised by Harvard's policies...