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Thanks to the vocal South African Solidarity Committee (SASC), and outsider peering into the Yard might get the mistaken impression that all student political activity centers on South Africa and the University's investment portfolio...
COCA holds teach-ins, sponsors speakers, and distributes a newsletter to more than 5000 students each semester. Comparing COCA to SASC, Brugge comments. "We put out a lot of information that's extremely important but less visible than SASC...
...light of the recent accusations being made about the possibility of phone tapping of students belonging to the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC), we would like to remind the Harvard community that proof that wiretapping has occurred would not necessarily implicate the University in any wrongdoing it is entirely possible that wiretapping has been carried out not by Harvard University, but rather by the United States government...
...know the SASC leaders were doing their best to hold a peaceful protest and I know what happened was not planned. But when demonstrators tried to prevent Mr. Hoppenstein's entrance to the Lowell House JCR with football style body blocks, and when they pounded on the windows they did a pretty good imitation of violence. They yelled "what is it you don't want to see" when we pulled shut the drapes--but I found more striking the comment made by the speaker that "their presence means there's something they don't want you to hear...
...also didn't see any Nazis. What I saw was a lot of people putting a lot of effort into a cause they could perhaps better assist in other ways. A real peaceful protest, civil disobedience done well would certainly be an improvement. Though the protest wasn't expected (SASC wasn't supposed to know), inviting a South African to speak may have been a foolish stunt, it seemed more intended to provoke liberals than to let the South African government have its say. Certainly all sides would be better off had this unpleasant incident not occurred. Perhaps SASC should...