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...chairman of the National Council of the South African Education Program (SAEP) which brings each year 80-90 nonwhite South Africans to begin studying in the United States. The scholarship recipients and their fields of study are determined by a committee in South Africa chaired by Bishop Desmond Tutu. Almost 225 such students are currently enrolled in American universities under the SAEP program. Through our efforts, approximately six million dollars are being raised annually for this purpose from U.S. corporations, universities, and the federal government...
What with Bishop Desmond Tutu, the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, and Harvard's United Ministries all recently calling holdings and divest loudly rallying against apartheid the University may be headed for an unusually heavy wave of criticism...
Unfortunately we have also received a number of complaints from students who were not invited to the luncheon for Bishop Tutu, the NAACP dinner and a recent dinner for the U.S. Ambassador to Kenya. We humbly apologize to those students who were not invited but were interested in attending these events. We would like to assure them that no student of any background was deliberately excluded from these activities...
...apologize to those in the Harvard African Students Association who complained that we had "invited too many Afro-Americans and too few Africans" to the Bishop Tutu Luncheon and the Ambassador's dinner. At the same time we disagree with those who maintain that African students were more entitled to join the Bishop at the luncheon because he too is an African. The Bishop is a world leader who belongs to everyone, and we invited several African students to join other groups in celebrating the significance of this life...
...apologize to the members of the South African Solidarity Committee who complained that we invited the wrong Committee members to the Bishop Tutu luncheon and that we had the Bishop "deliver the Harvard line on divestiture." We tried to invite some of those persons who, to our knowledge, care a great deal about the South African issue. We also tried to include some of the SASC members recommended to us. We did not discuss with the Bishop what he should say on divestiture...