Word: hraaa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid(HRAAA) regularly puts forward an alternativeslate of candidates who want the University todivest its holdings in South Africa...
...Africa by announcing, even at this late date, that Harvard will forthwith divest itself of all holdings in companies doing business in South Africa, and will not reinvest until a genuinely democratic government has been installed. Robert Paul Wolff Professor of Philosophy University of Massachusetts Former Executive Director of HRAAA...
...Robert P. Wolff '54, the former executive director of HRAAA, sees the change somewhat differently. "For a brief moment, there was a threat--from us--that the Board might actually do something, that these people might actually have an independent thought," says Wolff. "So [the administration] took some preemptive action," he says, referring to the Young Report...
...much of a real influence the Board will exert in upcoming years remains to be seen. In the meantime, alternative slate candidates continue to run for positions on the Board even though the time for divestment seems to have passed. HRAAA's current officers say they have redefined their agenda to include "broader issues of social responsibility...
...Wolff says he believes that even though HRAAA failed to convince Harvard to divest, it has succeeded...