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Unfortunately, the University demonstrated its ignorance of this larger meaning by allowing representatives of a South African catering company to tour Harvard dining facilities last Friday. A national organization arranged the visit, while administrators with Harvard University Dining Services approved and led it--an unsettling example of how the most innocent contact with South Africa can show disrespect for the most important of human principles: racial equality...
Last week's tour involved nine officials--one of them Black--of a company that lists itself on its letterhead as the leading catering and food management consulting firm in South Africa. The group toured several American campuses with the help of a Michigan-based association that includes more than 600 college dining services...
Harvard does not know whether Fedics practices apartheid. One dining service administrator said simply that there was no time during the three-hour tour to ask about the company's policies. In his words, the interchange "was not about politics." The visit and the discussion centered on business and the exchange of professional ideas and information, he said...
...divestment resolution, which the Board tabled for further consideration until last month. Then last month the issue was further stalled when the Board sent it to the subcommittee for preliminary consideration. Prior to the December meeting, Steiner and Secretary to the Governing Boards Robert Shenton went on a tour of the country, visiting the Overseers at their homes and offices, explaining why they should not vote on the divestment resolution--skewing the process even more...
...wanted to be a wellrounded person. Taking non-music classes, that's why I came here. Also, I wanted to make friends who are not musicians. When you're with musicians, they talk generally about just music," says Chen, who will travel with the HRO on its East Asian tour this summer...