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Amid a brewing global debate about how best to address the system of racial apartheid in South Africa, Harvard’s graduating classes in the mid-1980s sought to bring the issue closer to home. Beginning with the class of 1983, graduating seniors created an alternative fund to the traditional senior gift called the Endowment for Divestiture in an effort to pressure the University to divest its endowment funds from companies doing business in South Africa—a call that echoed the United Nation’s similar recommendation...
...According to Claude D. Convisser ’84, some seniors in the class of 1984 also chose to continue donating money to the fund in an effort to sustain pressure on the University to divest from South African companies...
...divestiture first arose as a major issue in the late 1970s when a group of students seized then President Derek C. Bok’s office in 1978 and later organized a torchlight procession through the streets of Cambridge to protest Harvard’s continued investment in South Africa. Approximately three thousand people participated in the torchlight parade, which was followed by a day-long blockade of University Hall...
...seems unlikely, then, that Sunday's elections will mark anything like a resurgence for benighted South Ossetia. "People don't believe that the elections were fair; they are losing faith," said Alan. "If nothing is done, and promises aren't delivered, then we will protest. I know eventually we will get what we want." Judging by past events, it will not come easily...
...electrical circuit and causing a short circuit is "terribly rare," he says. "But the [term] short circuit was used. Short circuit equals sparks. Spark equals fire. We're speculating, but an airplane has gone missing." It's believed to be the first time a plane has gone down between South America and Europe (or vice versa) since the route was inaugurated in 1947. (See pictures from the Buffalo plane crash...