Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senior Class Committee voted unanimously in April to create a scholarship fund under Biko's name, hoping that money donated to the fund would finance scholarships for black South Africans...
Michael R. Eastman '79, a class marshal, proposed the establishment of the Biko Fund as a compromise between students calling for a total boycott of the senior fund drive and students opposing such a boycott...
...said he then presented his new position to the Senior Class Committee in a heated meeting last week. "They felt we knew about the substitution effect from the beginning, and that I was somehow reneging. But after talking to Malin. I felt there was nothing else I could do," Eastman said...
Back in April when the Senior Class Committee voted unanimously to send out a letter publicizing the newly-created Stephen Biko Memorial Fund, there was great hope that the Fund would succeed in bringing attention to an issue of vital concern to Harvard seniors and would directly assist the victims of South Africa's apartheid system. Though no one at the time viewed the Fund in and of itself as an adequate response to the challenge put forward by the Harvard Corporation's investment policy, everyone agreed that it would be a step in the right direction...
Herrnstein said the proposed executive committee would be an interim measure until enough senior Faculty are appointed to the department to form their own committee...