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Against the SASC I maintain that Harvard must "place the academic goals of the University above all other considerations." Harvard does not select students on the basis of their ability to manage a $1.4 billion endowment. Harvard chooses students who values the academic goals of morality, truth, and beauty. By teaching students how such goals are more important than profit and power, Harvard guarantees that its students will never repeat the criminal greed of U.S. corporations now in South Africa. Partisan agitation on the part of undergraduates is secondary to the achievement of a deeper understanding of ethics, science...
Daniel Rabinowitz '78, a member of the Southern African Solidarity Committee (SASC) and the first speaker, told the audience and the three Corporation members who were present that "The ACSR report does not end Harvard's complicity in apartheid, nor does it aid in bringing about the destruction of apartheid...
Dudley and North Houses have still not endorsed the proposals, mainly because of difficulties in getting them on the agenda and having SASC members present to sponsor them, SASC members have said...
House committees in Mather, Kirkland and Eliot this week have voted to endorse the proposals of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC), bringing the total number of Houses in favor of the proposals to 11. The Freshman Council has also given its endorsement...
...SASC proposals call for Harvard not to invest in banks lending money to the South African government or its public corporations, and to support or initiate shareholder resolutions urging all companies in the Harvard investment portfolio that operate in South Africa to withdraw from the country...