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...groups that need help in Southern Africa, this is all Harvard could come up with. What would you have thought if the University of Capetown had sent interns to Andover during the fifties to help southern Blacks in the civil rights movement? Of course, Harvard Vice President Daniel Steiner '54, chairman of the program's steering committee, points out that the current list of nine internships is provisional. But the University clearly intended to send students to at least some of them. In fact, according to SASC, South African officials of at least two of the programs were...
Certainly there is no love lost between Steiner and the divestment movement over his misguided labours. As well as chairing the internship committee and overseeing the new program, he has long been the University's point man on the divestment issue. He has frequently derided student protests and is usually the University's spokesman and troubleshooter on touchy corporate issues. Students, in turn, have frequently blamed him for a variety of the University's evil-doings--from investment policy to a pre-Cambrian attitude toward labor relations. SASC directed its report at "the Steiner Committee," and it seems obvious that...
Over the past few days, The Crimson and [Harvard Vice President Daniel] Steiner have been trying to split hairs over whether or not a list in OCS was in any way connected with the Harvard South African Internship Program as administered by the Harvard South Africa Committee chaired by Steiner. Regardless of whether or not the list in OCS is related to the committee, the real issues of the controversy over Harvard's illconceived program are being avoided...
...South African Internships," although the list was in the form of a memo from one member of the committee to another, although students requesting information about the internship program were referred to the list, and although members of the committee received copies of the list in their meeting packets, Steiner contends that the list was not connected with the work of the committee. Even though SASC believes that Steiner's statement strains credibility, SASC does not want the actual purpose of the list to be the crux of the debate...
...Steiner gave no indication that his committeewould reform the internship program based on theSASC report or seek further Black South Africaninput, saying only that any judgements of theprogram should await its final implementation...