Word: presented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...university can hardly doubt the inadequacy of the present system--or lack of a system. Students are certainly aware of the problem: an overwhelming 91% of undergraduates polled favor a formal study abroad program. Nor can the university question the future popularity of the Stanford proposal, especially as leaves-of-absence become increasingly common at Harvard. Some 30 to 40 per cent of the Stanford student-body has taken advantage of this opportunity...
...increasing number of Harvard Faculty members are calling for divestiture. We shall discuss: (1) the ways in which divestiture would contribute to the elimination of apartheid; (2) the viewpoints of prominent South African opponents of apartheid; (3) the costs to Harvard of divestiture; (4) the fallacies in Harvard's present approach...
...context, Harvard is faced with the choice of a policy of ambivalence on apartheid (opposing it in words while at the same time profiting from it)--which can only cause cynicism among Africans--or a forthright stand which could start to win back the good will of Africa's present and future leaders...
...Harvard delegation has not met since returning from Philadelphia. The plan now is to present all conference findings to the appropriate Student Assembly committees for consideration, and to also work on translating resolutions and suggestions into action here. Conference organizers themselves have set up a follow-up network, and some more issue-oriented, progressive delegates who were on the conference's student government committee plan a meeting later this year. Activists on various campuses have exchanged names and phone numbers. So, for Harvard at least, some tangible results have occurred...
...autobiographical Beneath the Underdog, published in 1972. He shouted, he threw things, he stormed out of clubs. At times he became obsessed with the (probably justified) fear that other musicians were capitalizing on ideas stolen from him, and he refused to solo if he suspected that spies were present. He quit performing in the late '60s, boarded himself up in an East Village apartment, and spent years fighting illnesses, poverty, and severe depression. The '70s found him back on the scene, leading some exciting bands and experiencing unprecedented popularity; his Three or Four Shades of Blues (1977) sold over...