Word: tutu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tutu's willingness to run for office, however, indicates something more important--Harvard's policy matters. Tutu believes the University's divestment would send the message that reaping profits from a system of institutional racism is immoral. He also wants to expose the lie that selective divestment policies, such as Harvard's, can be fair and humanitarian...
HARVARD-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA) is ready to play hardball with the administration. Two weeks after the Harvard Alumni Association nominated Secretary of Labor Elizabeth Dole, former Democratic National Committee Chair Paul Kirk, and actor John Lithgow for the Board of Overseers, HRAAA responded by backing Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of the world's leading anti-apartheid activists. Now, even the administration's list seems paltry in stature. Dole, Lithgow and Kirk have not won any Nobel Prizes...
...Crimson calls on alumni to elect Tutu to the Board of Overseers, in order to ensure that this powerful divestment activist has the opportunity to bring his message to the inner circles of Harvard's decision making process...
...addition to the three overseers elected on the H/RAAA slate, Tutu and Overseer Sen. Albert J. Gore '69 (D-Tenn.) have already said they support a stronger divestment stand. Activists have also said that Paul G. Kirk '60, the former Democratic Party chair who is a Harvard candidate up for a seat on the Board this year, might favor total divestment...
While those numbers are not staggering when compared with the mass anti-apartheid protests of 1986, they are the largest of this academic year. And though they were unrelated to the Tutu announcement--the rally was planned several days before Tutu's candidacy was released publicly--growing student interest could mean that Tutu's election will resuscitate what has been termed the dying divestment movement...