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...page report released last week by the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) provides an exhaustive indictment of the internship program. Harvard officials have been caught with their pants down. The committee designing the program did not solicit the views of Black South Africans and ignored protests from Black South Africans at Harvard. Five of the nine Harvard internships now available would send students to elite, white private schools in the racist state. Two of them are in the illegally occupied territory of Namibia and are associated with a company that engages in illegal mining activities and has been internationally condemned...
...civil rights movement? Of course, Harvard Vice President Daniel Steiner '54, chairman of the program's steering committee, points out that the current list of nine internships is provisional. But the University clearly intended to send students to at least some of them. In fact, according to SASC, South African officials of at least two of the programs were led to believe they would definitely get interns...
...divestment issue. He has frequently derided student protests and is usually the University's spokesman and troubleshooter on touchy corporate issues. Students, in turn, have frequently blamed him for a variety of the University's evil-doings--from investment policy to a pre-Cambrian attitude toward labor relations. SASC directed its report at "the Steiner Committee," and it seems obvious that that committee's activities were conceived with student protests in mind...
...corporate involvement. He was also sent by the University to a student conference on South Africa during January. The conference invited students from other universities by sending letters to their deans asking for students interested in the anti-apartheid movement or student government. However, Harvard officials never notified SASC of the conference and sent Berle instead, who is no longer even a student. At the conference, Berle was an outspoken supporter of corporate involvement in South Africa and argued for internship programs like Harvard's, both of which positions were overwhelmingly opposed by other delegates...
Addressing more than 30 members of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC), Moses Nkondo said, "The program is doomed to be ineffective at best and harmful at worst...