Word: southafrica
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Dates: during 1986-1986
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...said that their decision tokeep the shanties standing was inevitable. "Ithink it is likely that there will be some peoplewho are irritated by the presence of theshantytown, but what we have to ask these peopleis to realize what the shantytown is about andthat the reality of our investments in SouthAfrica translates directly into things like theshantytown," said Weissman
...result of this is a program that, if[Harvard] goes ahead with the listed internships,it will harm everyone: Black South Africans,Harvard University, and people... who are put inmisleading situations and return to the UnitedStates with a distorted picture of life in SouthAfrica and of the state of South African society,"the report charges, after exhaustively attackingthe value of internship possibilities listed atOCS...
...Steiner committee, which Bok set up toadminister the fund and which first met inOctober, began to set up the program byinstructing Eliot House Master Alan E. Heimert, amember of the committee, to distribute literatureto South Africans involved in educationalenterprises there. As the responses from SouthAfrica trickled in, Harvard began to recruitstudents to the program...
...actual internships currently listed as`available' contradict the stated goals of theprogram," concludes the 48-page SASC report. Theactivists charge that these organizations do notserve the Black majority because they are eitherpredominately white private schools or wouldinvolve Harvard students in bolstering SouthAfrica's illegal occupation of Namibia...
...profiles include such information ascorporations' investments in strife-ridden SouthAfrica and violation of environmental andoccupational safety laws. Also included in theprofiles is the perceived lack of morality of somecompanies' business practices...