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Spurred by numerous faculty and student complaints, Dean Dunlop has asked the Committee of Inquiry to study the disruption of the Physics Department's colloquium on March 8, at which Edwin Land, president of the Polaroid Corp., was a scheduled speaker...
...demonstration protested Polaroid's allegedly racist commercial dealings with the South African government and Land's involvement in that policy...
...your issue of Tuesday, March 9, you incorrectly attributed the cancellation of the Physics Department Colloquium to its scheduled speaker, Dr. E. H. Land, President of the Polaroid Corporation. I decided, in consultation with an ad hoc committee of five members of the Department of Physics, to cancel the colloquium when it became clear that conditions permitting a scientific presentation could not be maintained. We deplore the loss to the Harvard community of the opportunity to hear from Dr. Land himself about the latest results in his unique and exciting research on color vision...
Caroline Hunter, a representative of the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement, described Polaroid's involvement in helping maintain South Africa's racist regime. Polaroid supplies the South African government with the ID2 "instant identification system," which the government uses to issue identity cards and to keep a computerized data bank on all those persons to whom identity cards are issued...
...activities will include discussions led by Rosgelio Reyes of the Latin American Liberation, Louis Ganlen of the Young Lords Party, a socialist group for Puerto Rican independence, Ngo Vinh Long, a member of a South African Liberation group and Caroline Hunter, a member of the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers...