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...spring 1979, students engaged in campus-wide rallies and a boycott of classes to protest investments in South Africa. Faculty members, meanwhile, put forth a strong effort to influence Harvard’s investments, debating the issue in two full meetings and writing an open letter urging the University to participate in anti-apartheid efforts. And after about a decade of unrest and debate, by the 1980s, the Corporation had gradually divested from South Africa...
...controversy reached a national scale when seven members of Congress wrote a letter to Bok on Dec. 15, made public on Jan. 3, expressing their concern over the library’s name...
Because the letter was not finalized until the end of exam period, many HLS students remain oblivious to the letter, though Vincent Y. Liu, a first-year law student, said that he approved of the letter...
...think what happened in the prison of Iraq is abhorrent,” he said. “I hope this letter can wake the conscience of some legislators, especially from the Republican wing of the Congress...
...letter also calls for the prosecution and punishment of those who violate humanitarian law, asking for the “impeachment and removal from office of any civil officer of the United States responsible” for these crimes...