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If the tides of opinion on abortion changed suddenly in this state, could anyone be assured that formerly prochoice politicians would not reconsider their previous convictions?
Bok's comments at the meeting have forced me to significantly reconsider the current strategy for encouraging Harvard to divest. The traditional tactics of rallies, letter-writing campaigns and petitions have not worked. What else can be done?
But by Tuesday, Harvard's top officials had said that divestment probably would not be discussed at the Board's next meeting. Specifically, President Derek C. Bok said the University would not reconsider its policy unless there were even more drastic changes in South Africa.
"There must be a lot of uncertainty on the Board, and this is certainly a time when the Board should reconsider its policy," one overseer says, "but it's not clear to me that the Executive Committee will be open to discussing divestment."
The statements by Tutu and White-head on Sunday had offered activists the first hope in more than a year that the alumni-elected Board of Over-seers, which votes on Harvard policy, might reconsider its stance that Harvard should not divest completely of South African stock.