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...charge that Harvard's South African internship program will help stifle change by fostering a Black elite, Master of Eliot House Alan E. Heimert '49 sardonically replies, "What's Harvard here...
Heimert, the president's special aide on South African affairs, believes that the recently implemented internship program, which would send Harvard students to South African educational institutions, is a logical extension of the university's philosophy of unencumbered scholarship to that nation. For the past five years, the Cabot Professor of American Literature has headed Harvard's South African fellowhip program, which sponsors Black South African scholars at Harvard. In that postition he travels to South Africa several times a year and makes contacts with educators there...
...seemed to make sense when a committee that is chaired by Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 and controls Harvard's $1 million South Africa aid fund, viewed Heimert as the expert on South African education and sent him there in November to publicize the internship program...
...concern of several fellow committee members is that the internship program would divert funds from more worthy projects such as expanding the fellowship program. But Heimert, who currently is in South Africa on fellowship business, says anybody who argues that the fellowship program will loose funds "doesn't know a crock of shit...
Heimert avoids expressing his personal opinion on the internship program or or other issues such as divestment by only discussing the facts of his involvement. The professor says the SASC report misconstrued his journey as one planned around visits to only a few, set institutions. He says he merely distributed literature in the hopes South African educators would become aware of the program...