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...African Liberation Committee that Harvard sell its Gulf stock as a protest against Portuguese colonialism. This demand gained wide student support (including that of The Crimson), it introduced a new word .."divestiture".. into radical rhetoric, and eventually led to the occupation of Massachusetts Hall for a week. Until the PALC campaign, most corporate responsibility buffs had considered divestiture to be a cop-out, and had criticized both Yale and MIT for selling their G.M. stock to avoid having to vote on dissident proxy questions. Harvard eventually decided not to sell its Gulf stock and not to vote for the disclosure...
...writing this letter as members of an ad hoc group of students and faculty who, following the occupation of Massachusetts Hall by PALC and AFRO, attempted to organize a public debate on the question: "Should Harvard Divest...
Following the occupation, we felt that the issues raised by PALC-AFRO should be publicly discussed. Our idea was to organize a debate with three speakers representing each side of the question...
...contacted PALC-AFRO and it agreed to send a representative. Stephen Marglin, professor of Economics, and Derrick Bell, professor of Law, also agreed to speak in favor of the position that Harvard should divest its Gulf stock. The arrangement of the "pro" side was relatively simple to organize, in striking contrast to our attempts to gain speakers for the "con," or Administration side of the question...
...would have been nice if the PALC and Afro-American Association occupiers of President Bok's office exhibited a sense of proportion. As if their two penny heroic antics during the occupation of Massachusetts Hall were not enough, they now offer a plea for amnesty from the consequences of their supposedly moral and revolutionary action. This plea strikes me as grotesque and the anti-Harvard pronouncements associated with it are pathetic...