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...founding of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC). The Harvard Corporation and the ACSR at this time recognized no special problems with corporations doing business in South Africa, but after a year of rallies, pickets and packed ACSR hearings, culminating in a 3000- (yes, that's three thousand) person torchlight parade and day-long blockade of University Hall, not only did the Corporation agree that South Africa as an institutionally racist state was a unique light on the face of the world, but it agreed to divest from all banks that lent for any reason to the South African government...
Divestiture became a prominent campus issue in 1978 when students occupied President Bok's office and later organized a torchlight procession through the streets of Cambridge for the cause...
...students marched by torchlight to protest Harvard's complicity in apartheid; the next year, two-thirds of the student body went on a one-day strike against South African investments. With national media attention focused on the divestiture movement, drawn by the march. President Bok was careful to insist on Harvard's "abhorrence" of apartheid. Yet Bok refused to divest, promising instead a case-by-case review of its portfolio to determine whether a given corporation contributed more to apartheid than it provided in benefits to its Black employees...
...someone with a clear sense of direction. Guy Molyneux '81-4 has championed a series of fairly disparate campus movements. From the 1978 torchlight march protesting Harvard's investments in companies that do business in South Africa, to the boycott of a cap and gown manufacturer over a union dispute, to the condemnation of Arnold C. Harberger's appointment as head of the Harvard Institute of International Development, to the formation of the progressive "Coop Group." Molyneux has had a hand in nearly every even vaguely leftist student campaign in his almost five years in Cambridge...
Take, for instance, the divestiture movement. The activist joined the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) during the heated months before the torchlight parade through the square that drew over 1000 students and constituted the largest demonstration since the anti-Vietnam movement days. Some heat remains in his tone now when he discusses the student-faculty committee that advises the corporation on its investments: "I don't know how anybody can sit on the ACSR without a certain sense of shame because they are so clearly being used--unless they went on specifically to change the committee...