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...past few weeks, several section meetings have been held at the "Open University" shantytown in the Yard, apparently in support of some or all of the goals of the demonstration. But as laudable as the intentions of these section leaders may be, they should not be forcing their students into making political choices in the classroom. Whatever the distribution of student opinion on such issues as Harvard divestment from companies that do business in South Africa--and campus polls have been far from conclusive--it is not an issue in the question of section meetings at the shantytown. The Faculty...
WHAT GOOD IS an education if it avoids political questions? There are very few issues which one can study or discuss without facing questions that are "political." What makes the issues motivating the Open University shantytown seem inappropriate to the majority is that they are controversial. Taking a stand on divestment, on discrimination and on undemocratic governance at Harvard puts students at odds with the status quo. But it seems to us that taking such a stand, trusting one's own considered convictions, is precisely what an education is about...
Standing in front of the Harvard Yard shantytown yesterday, Eighth Congressional District candidate James Roosevelt Jr. '68 called on Harvard to divest its $416 million in South Africa-related stockholdings...
...GROWING FRUSTRATION with the University's lack of response is one of SASC's stated reasons for building the shantytown. But a deeper reason, it seems to me, is frustration over the continued absence of peer support. There has been no student groundswell, even after a year of increasing violence in South Africa, and visits to Harvard by Jesse Jackson and Bishop Desmond W. Tutu. After years of "consciousness raising" without divestment, no one seriously expects the Corporation to change its collective mind. Now the activist tactic is not to raise consciousness but to raise the ante--that...
Such tactics are increasingly desperate and consciously intrude on student's rights--whether the right not to attend class at the shantytown, as some section leaders have urged, or not to be accosted by petitioners. Like the shantytown, which violates the free use of a public place, aggressive polling is undertaken in the name of a "higher good." Both tactics are used by SASC activists to legitimate assertions of growing student support, of "overwhelming majorities" in favor of their cause...