Word: paton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FEST organizer Scott B. Paton '87 initiallysaid yesterday that the SPA had decided on its ownto delay the concert date, but responding toHinkel's comments, he later acknowledged that theSPA pushed back the concert after Face to Faceexpressed concern...
After consulting with the rock group, SPAconcluded that the concert would be moresuccessful in the fall, Paton said. "We decidedthat it would be easier to catch the attention ofstudents geared up for a new year than those whoare paranoid about exams and ready to leave forhome," Paton said...
South African novelist Alan Paton, an outspoken liberal critic of apartheid, once declared: "I am full of joy to realize that I never had anything to do with any divestment campaign." Paton, unlike those who protest today, knows that the divestiture movement rests more on moral outrage than on a sober evaluation of South African realities. Because American disinvestment can so easily harm those whom it ought to help, and because Harvard's financial involvement with repressive regimes hardly begins and ends with South Africa, blanket divestiture would represent the first step into an ethical minefield...
...professor at South Africa's Rhodes University, argued in a recent issue of Foreign Affairs: "Given the level of suffering that already exists in the country, it is in no one's interest to destroy the South African economy or to induce further chaos in the country." Writes Alan Paton: "I will never give any support to any campaign that will put men out of jobs...
...bands will perform two days before examsbegin. But said Paton: "It's a good break to take.You've got the next day to do your cramming...