Word: internship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Second, it is clear and understandable that in South Africa and at Harvard political considerations may affect in significant ways what people say and what they do in response to the proposed internship program. The politicization has changed the nature and quality of the discussion and has led to divisiveness, especially in our own community. This result ill serves the interests of Harvard a people in South Africa." (Text of General Counsel Daniel Steiner's letter to President Bok on why the internship program has been suspended...
...weeks ago, on the eve of spring break, the University announced the cancellation of its South Africa Internship Program after the program drew harsh criticism from student anti-apartheid activists, was attacked at a faculty meeting and was denounced by several Black political and religious leaders in South Africa...
...committee's retreat was an extraordinary move for Harvard. Especially on issues relating to South Africa, the University has forged ahead with controversial policies in spite of criticism from many of the same students, faculty and public figures that attacked the internship program. Not since student and faculty protest forced ROTC off campus in 1969 has the Harvard Administration backed down from such a public challenge...
...announcing the decision not to send interns, Bok said, "I hope I always will have the kind of Administration that can learn from experience." We should take him at his word. But if he really takes the lessons of the stillborn internship program to heart, there should be some significant changes in the way Harvard does business...
...contention on which the internship program rose and fell was that it represented what Black South Africans wanted us to do to help them. The University has also made this claim about its refusal to divest from corporations doing business in South Africa. In both cases, the claim is specious...