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...discussing the University's decision to retain its Gulf holdings. Robinson noted an incongruity between the University's explanation of its action and numerous statements by African and black American organizations, officials, and scholars urging the University to divest. "The overwhelming African voice has said to Bok that it is in our interest to have Gulf out. To have you out of Gulf and to have Gulf out of Angola. But the Corporation never deferred to the African voice," Robinson said...
Ewart Guinier, chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department, donated $500 to the students occupying Mass Hall. In a statement issued at the time of the donation. Guinier said he supports "the reasonable demands of the Pan-African Liberation Committee" and opposes the Corporation's decision to retain its Gulf Oil Corporation stock...
When PALC leaders were handed that decision Wednesday afternoon, few doubted that a closed Afro meeting Wednesday night would first reject Bok's explanation to retain the stock, and then ponder a response. It was largely a matter of which building would be taken, when and how. But it was no surprise: two Harvard policemen don't ordinarily spend nights in Massachusetts Hall. As Bok said of the previously delayed, now real, occupation. "We weren't exactly unaware of the possibility...
...bring back the designation Master for unmarried men and retain the Mr. for married men. Women's Libbers should like the idea of a man losing the title of Master upon becoming married...
...tenant farmer who can show that he is tilling a piece of land is entitled to take free possession of it, up to certain limits (7.5 acres in the vast Delta, 2½ acres in land-poor central South Viet Nam). Landlords are allowed to retain a maximum of 30 acres provided they work the land themselves or hire wage laborers...