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...Corporation denounces the South African apartheid system as “repugnant and inhumane?? but announces that it will employ a system of proxy voting for partial divestment, asking the companies in which it invests to withdraw from South Africa. The Corporation rules out complete divestment as a “relatively ineffective means of pursuing ethical ends”; President Bok expresses reluctance to use the endowment as a political tool. The fight over divestment extends to the Board of Overseers and the Corporation, Harvard’s governing boards; professors, student groups, and alumni associations petition...
...academic year, the Corporation had condemned South Africa’s apartheid system as “repugnant and inhumane?? and put in place a system of guidelines for investment in the country. These rules called for the University to use its proxy votes to urge companies operating in South Africa to “take active steps to oppose apartheid” and to stop investing in banks that granted loans to the South African government...
...stance on conflict diamonds is that it exposes how unprincipled our pursuit of some other products is. With our massive consumption of oil we have paid for and will continue to pay for enormous Middle Eastern arsenals. Coffee, sugarcane and cacao are all procured under brutal—even inhumane??conditions rivaling those of any diamond mine, but they are too essential to our daily lives to consider a ban. Instead, we have banned conflict diamonds, which make up a mere 3 percent share of the world diamond market. Basically, we’re willing to take...
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