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...greatest university concession to the movement in its history. The Corporation, which decides the policy on Harvard's investment portfolio, agreed to sell its stock in banks that gave direct loans to South Africa. When the university tried to pull back on that policy in the spring of 1982, SASC shook itself out of a four-year dormancy to maintain the policy...
While Harvard has revived its 1960s-era disciplinary board, the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, SASC members say they plan many activities that are not punishable and that the threat of punishment will not deter them...
...been losing steam. We weren't starting from a strong position. We built up slowly to April 4, and we hadn't concentrated on what we were going to do after April 4. It look us two weeks after that to get going," says Robert Weissman '88, a SASC member. "This year the planning won't just be for April 4; it will be for April. It won't only be one event, it will be a whole campaign...
...campaign will be sparked by ongoing events in South Africa, and this April will be a crucial month in that nation beset with racial tension SASC members say. "Things are going to be happening in South Africa like they haven't before," says SASC member Jaron R. Bourke '88. Earlier this year South African students went on strike, returning to school with the warning that if the South African apartheid policies had not improved by April, they would strike again. And the national labor force has also pledged a national strike in April if steps have not been taken...
...very interested in what they're doing, and what we do here in this country is to try to support what they're doing," says Bourke, adding that the numbers of SASC members will increase throughout the spring as news of action in South Africa are featured in the news...