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After the administration promises all 25,000 Commencement guests that this year's ceremonies would not be rained out, snow that SASC members had covertly prevented from falling all winter is unleashed upon the crowd. SASC said the chill in University attitudes toward divestment inspired this protest strategy, though a small faction of SASC members declines to participate due to the fact that all of the snow is white. Barbara Bush nevertheless gives an impassioned Commencement address about "A Thousand Point Spread" in the next Harvard-Yale Game, due to her husband's refusal to set foot in "that liberal...
Several of the divestment overseers and activists on campus are also pushing for the joint committee to hold open hearings on campus. Noah M. Berger '89 said that he and other members of the South African Solidarity Committee (SASC) wrote a letter two weeks ago to Geyser University Professor Henry Rosovsky, the Corporation co-chair of the joint committee...
...written response to SASC, Rosovsky refused to meet personally with the students or to discuss their demands, but said he would forward their letter to the full committee when it next met. Berger said that his organization would contnue to push for access to the joint committee if it failed to act on the letter...
...SASC leaders said Stone's membership in the Corporation and his position on the board of the investment firm create a conflict of interest when the Harvard body considers divestment issues. Because Scudder, Stevens and Clark has investments in companies that do business with South Africa the students said Stone could not impartially decide whether Harvard should divest...
Berger said SASC plans to hold similar demonstrations at the homes and offices of other members of the Corporation and the Board of Overseers until the joint committee issues its decision...