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In a related development yesterday representatives of several campus groups said they will lunch a petition drive today to demonstrate support for immediate and total divestiture of University stock in all corporations that do any business in South Africa.
"We thought it was important for people to see a reaffirmation of our concern of this issue and also to point out that Harvard's investment is being used as a justification for maintaining the status quo," said Dr. Rita Breen, director of the University's Committee on African Studies...
Organizers of the petition effort, said that their document is different from previous petitions because it stresses a moral responsibility for Harvard as an investor.
What really set off ideological alarms at Stanford, however, was the inclusion not only of a library and museum but of a public policy center to be administered by Hoover. Last spring, 84 of Stanford's 1,200-member faculty and 1,500 of its 12,000 students signed...
The organizers of the first-year petition say that they will continue their efforts, but many first-year students may have been placated by the Law Review's compromise position. We hope that they will continue to hold out for the total abolishment of grades as criteria for Law Review...