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When two dozen student protesters seized Massachusetts Hall at dawn on April 20, 1972 and began a 153-hour seige, it was the climax of events that started in August and escalated as the Pan-African Liberation Committee (PALC) pushed and pulled against President Derek C. Bok's new administration...
...began with a report that PALC sent the two-month-old Administration. The paper detailed the relationship of the Gulf Oil Co. to Portuguese colonies in Africa and asked the University to divest itself of its 680,000 shares of Gulf stock. Throughout the controversy that followed, PALC charged that Gulf's African investment "facilitates the daily slaughter of Africans" and that "Harvard is deeply implicated in this crime...
...PALC, a Boston-based organization that claimed support from black undergraduates, the Harvard Black Faculty and Administrators Organization, marched on President Bok's office...
...statement did not satisfy PALC leaders, who continued to meet during the following days as security tightened around Mass. and University Halls...
...like the 1972 takeover didn't accelerate his practical education in coping with troubled students Shortly after that event, Bok formed the part-student Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR); though he said he'd been planning to create the ACSR for some time, it took an event like PALC's takeover to shock him into action...