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...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...
...student response to the Corporation report was overwhelming--a torchlight march by 3500 through Cambridge streets and a demonstration that cordoned off University Hall for a day. But President Bok and the Corporation defended their decision by asserting that divestiture would be ineffective in shaping corporate policy in South Africa. Instead, Bok said the Corporation would more effectively influence corporate proactices in South Africa by investigating those practices and voting as a shareholder. Bok also asserted the Corporation would not invest in banks that failed to take moral issues into consideration when making the loans...
...That's changed. Students are again taking interest in the morality of the Corporation, the system in which they will work, and the place of individuals within that system. Their voices are less strident now, their own lives not on the line as they were ten years ago. The torchlight march last spring, after all, included more than a few clubbies who drifted up to the Yard with drinks in their hands to join the line out of curiosity and amusement...
...some extent, Rosovsky was right. A forum allowing students to express their discontent with the Core attracted only a handful of people. However, the forum was held the same night as a torchlight march against Harvard's investment policy...
...protests, the Corporation decided to delay releasing its decision for two days. Despite the delay, the release of the decision rejecting student demands for divestiture set the stage for the largest student demonstration at Harvard in five years as more than 3000 students participated in a peaceful torchlight march that night. And the next day, April 28, students encircled Unviersity Hall in a "sit-out" that closed administation offices -- the culmination of a week in which University officials saw the abrupt end of their vision of the much-heralded new mood on campus...