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...Southern Africa Solidarity Committee(SASC), the student divestment group, issued astatement yesterday which called for continuedprotests. "Harvard's divestment of $160 million isa partial victory for the generations of studentswho have with rallies, sit-ins and shantiesdemanded that their University cut all ties withapartheid. But our work is not yet done ...Administrators still believe that it is possibleto invest responsibly in South Africa," thestatement read...
That is a lesson not easily learned at Harvard,where people are either too neurotic or tooself-confident to allow the days to pass at theirown rate. Classmates willfully create crises andproblems because they are scared that happiness isa sign of mental laxity. We fetishize our neuroseshere, dote on trauma, and wallow in our angst. Weget away with it because we have no realresponsibilities here at college, where life is inessence one continuous hang out session and wherewe have the luxury to indulge ourselves in a waythat those in the workplace...
...recognition ofHarvard's altered emphases. "What they're nowsaying to the world is that what we now are is astraight psychology department. The name changewould say to an outsider, `We don't want to dealwith the dreams, the murky, the unclear anymore,"'explains Riesman, whose book "The Lonely Crowd" isa social science classic and who is noted for hisstudies of higher education...
...open letter this September responding to the worsening racial conflict in South Africa, President Derek C. Bok set aside the $1 million fund and established a South Africa aid program of which the internship program isa part...
Later on in the story, this entirely fictional percent sees, after a long while, the unattainable desire of his youth: "He understood all of a sudden that... everything, in his life and everything in the world was only because of Isa Maria Bietti; and now finally he saw her again their eyes met and Isa Maria Bietti didn't recognize him...the eyeglasses that made the rest of the world visible to him, those eyeglasses in their enormous black frames, made him invisible...