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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When students stormed University Hall in 1969 demanding the abolition of the ROTC, the administration capitulated. But ten years later; with a tightened economy and a more sedate student body, the University has met student demands of a different sort with letters and reports, but no action. Frustrated by Harvard's success at defusing the potentially explosive South African investment issue, the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) is setting its sights beyond Harvard Yard...
...student group succeeded at raising the criticism and controlling the debate that climaxed when 3500 members of the University marched through Cambridge streets in the torchlight parade of the spring of '78. The heat from the march and from student opposition to Harvard's continued holdings of South Africa-related investments threatened to bring student dissatisfaction right into University Hall...
...case-by-case review of corporations in South Africa, rife with intracacies and obfuscations. President Bok's open letters, which called total divestiture unjustifiable and a threat to Harvard's academic freedom and financial longevity, gave the Corporation the appearance of concern and served to further anesthetize student opposition...
With the administration now in control of the divestiture debate, student groups are changing the focus of their protests. The SASC plans to join with other anti-apartheid groups and increase the scope of their activities to include the Boston area as well as Harvard. The SASC is branching out of Harvard because it "doesn't want divestiture to obscure the larger goal of corporate withdrawl," Matthew Rothschild '80, an SASC member, explains. Molly Nolan, associate professor of History, agrees. Any number of institutions are linked to aiding the South African regime, not just Harvard," she says...
...Student dissatisfaction with Harvard's investments re-emerged in the fall of 1977 when members of the SASC called on Harvard to divest of its holdings in banks loaning to the South African government and to urge corporations to withdraw from that country through shareholder resolutions...