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Meanwhile, the student divestment group, the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC), can chalk this one up as one of its greatest victories. Initially, SASC released a lengthy report which, although to a certain degree based on preliminary information, exposed several serious problems with the internship program. The group showed that Harvard had acted rashly on President Bok's plan, without consulting top Black leaders in South Africa about either the value of the program as a whole or of the institutions to which Harvard might send interns...
...student divestment activist group, theSouthern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC),blasted the program early last month in a lengthlyreport. That report, based on a list of availableinternships made available to interested Harvardstudents before Steiner made his trip, saidHarvard had solicited interest from someuniversities and foundations that do not serveBlacks...
These institutions join the list of nineeducational organizations which had alreadyexpressed interest in interns and sparked the SASCreport. SASC criticized all but one of thoselisted and suggested other schools and programswhich genuinely help Blacks...
...organizations mentioned by Steineryesterday were among those proposed by SASC,including Black Sash, a white run civil rightsgroup, which Steiner said definitely wantsinterns. Another civil rights group mentioned bySteiner was the Legal Resources Center, which hasalready had Law School interns...
...list of organizations [interested ininterns] still has not gotten beyond those headedand funded by white liberals," said Damon A.Silvers '86, the author of the SASC report. Hesaid he felt that sending interns to some of theinstitutions Steiner met with recently would beslightly more beneficial to Blacks, but added thatthey were basically similar to those on theprevious list...