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While Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) organizers originally hoped to stage a rally to rival lastyear's event, they said that they changed theirfocus this week when they couldn't secure aspeaker with Jackson's national recognition...
...SASC members estimated that 500 people will bepresent at the memorial service and the rally thefollowing...
Sunday night the activists decided to changethe form of the rally because of lack ofpreparation, said SASC member Jonathan A. Bromson'89. So the group opted to scale down the rallyand not spend the night outside President Derek C.Bok's office in protest as they have done inprevious years...
...SASC members said the small scale of thisweek's events will not reflect a slackening instudent interest in the divestment issue. "[Thedecision not to sleep outside] was based on theknowledge that in the coming weeks the SASC levelof activity will be increasing," said Jaron R.Bourke...
...impact of the SASC report became obvious after an intensive follow-up campaign convinced a number of key faculty members and Black South African leaders that the internship program must be re-evaluated. The significance of the controversy, however, goes well beyond the score card between SASC and Harvard and has highlighted fundamental problems with Harvard's attitude toward politically sensitive issues...