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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard would rate as a slight favorite in the contest, but for one thing--captain and number one singles player Todd Lundy will sit out today and perhaps until the May 3 Yale match, with a mysterious muscle injury along his ribcage. The whole Crimson lineup will shift, with Don Pompan playing one and Bob Horne taking over...
Harvard allows these individuals and other interest groups to create their own unique and autonomous niches through the House system, the social clubs and in other activities. We ask as black students, if our talents and potentials are of equal value, why is it so important that we not sit together for lunch...
When McLean makes these modest pronouncements the most jaded students of high-stakes business sit up and listen, carefully. His record for earning money is awesome. Starting back home in North Carolina in 1934 with a down payment of $30 for a secondhand pickup truck, McLean built a substantial trucking concern and made millions. With additional backing from Ludwig, whose National Bulk Carriers operates supertankers, McLean founded Sea-Land Service, Inc., which grew into the nation's foremost containership operation. In 1969 he sold Sea-Land to Reynolds Tobacco for about $500 million. Then through his solely owned McLean...
...stock in the company, a small group of black students occupied Mass Hall, supporters demonstrated for several days in the Yard and students called a general University strike. The Corporation refused to give in to the pressure, and the Mass Hall occupiers left peacefully after six days. After the sit-in, Bok sent one of his assistants, Stephen B. Farber '63, to Angola to investigate the situation first-hand. Today Harvard still owns stock in Gulf Oil, but market forces and minor sales of some shares put the present value at $8.5 million...
...including the Black Students Association, are calling for Harvard's divestiture of stock in U.S. firms that help uphold the white minority government in South Africa. In 1972, persuasion failed so students took over a building--that also failed to make Harvard divest. Today rumors abound of a possible sit-in if the also assistant to the Corporation's investment all U.S. firms from South Africa, although none of the groups in the United Front, a newly-formed coalition of seven campus anti-apartheid groups, of the Front itself, have announced plans for a sit-in, or even admit...