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...University officials recognized the power of their claims. University Hall eventually began to make concessions to try to quell the storm. In the spring of 1986, as shanties stood in the Yard and hundreds of students flocked to meetings of the South African Solidarity Committee (SASC), Harvard dumped nearly half of its South African holdings...
Last year, the movement limped along aimlessly after the shanties disappeared over the summer. SASC members could do little more than respond to the various jibes that started to come from the community, the most pointed of which came from the campus's conservative community, which invited racists like South African Vice Consul Duke Kent-Brown to campus...
...When SASC members returned to campus this year, they found that many of their leaders of exceptional charisma or moral vigor had graduated. They heard no news from South Africa because of the media blackout there and could see no shanties on other campuses nationwide...
...discussion of divestment comes at a timewhen the issue has largely faded from the publiceye. Since attracting wide attention from shantiesit built in the Yard more than a year ago, theSouthern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) hasfor the most part disintegrated...
...what does glasnost mean at Harvard? Will it mean openness for all students, providing everyone a meaningful opportunity to provide input into the governance of the college? Or does openness here in Cambridge merely mean holding a forum in Boston that will be attended by SASC members and few others...