Word: internship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...committee set a deadline for applicationsto the internship program for the last day inJanuary. Letters the program had been distributedto South Africans and contacts, and news of theprogram was spread about. Harvard got responsesfrom several organizations and a list of ninepotential opportunities was made available toapplicants at the Office of Career Services (OCS).Although the University had not begun to reallycompile a list of internships, it was alreadyaccepting applications...
...mess became public last week when theSouthern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC), apro-divestment student group on campus, released areport charging that the internship program was"structurally flawed" because the Universityfailed to consult with Black South Africans"representng real political constituencies" whensetting up the program...
...result of this is a program that, if[Harvard] goes ahead with the listed internships,it will harm everyone: Black South Africans,Harvard University, and people... who are put inmisleading situations and return to the UnitedStates with a distorted picture of life in SouthAfrica and of the state of South African society,"the report charges, after exhaustively attackingthe value of internship possibilities listed atOCS...
...these dual efforts of creating studentinterest and getting internship opportunitiesproceeded, the committee resolved to wait toevaluate both student and institutional responseuntil March, when Steiner would have returned froma fact-finding tour of South Africa. But anorganizational slip-up side tracked the program...
...nation's radicals argue that in factthese educational programs create a Black elitewithout giving any benefits to the majority ofBlacks. "The internship program will modernize theracial state apparatus," Moses Nkondo, an exiledBlack South African and visiting scholar atCurrier House argues...