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MISCONCEIVED, DESTRUCTIVE, PREMATURE--these are the words Harvard Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 used to describe a report by the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) on the University's fledgling South Africa Internship Program, which was funded this September as part of a one million dollar University grant to help Black South Africans. But he missed the mark on all three points...
Steiner feels SASC failed to investigate the truth in order to quickly produce a critical report. Actually, it was the University that failed to conduct responsible research and preparation...
...mess became public last week when theSouthern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC), apro-divestment student group on campus, released areport charging that the internship program was"structurally flawed" because the Universityfailed to consult with Black South Africans"representng real political constituencies" whensetting up the program...
...committee to another, although students requesting information about the internship program were referred to the list, and although members of the committee received copies of the list in their meeting packets, Steiner contends that the list was not connected with the work of the committee. Even though SASC believes that Steiner's statement strains credibility, SASC does not want the actual purpose of the list to be the crux of the debate...
Finally, given the serious shortcomings brought up in the SASC report, why has Steiner yet to renounce any of the programs on the OCS list? The mere fact that Steiner is still entertaining the idea of internships with Namibian organizations that are illegally sponsored by the South African Government seriously questions his commitment to use the internship for its stated goals...