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...Student governments from seven schools formed an unprecedented umbrella organization to deal with issues of common concern such as financial aid, minority questions, and tuition...
Alone with this new focus, the movement has found a powerful new driving force. Six progressive national groups have combined to form the Coalition for the Campaign Against Public Investment in South Africa. This umbrella group brings together the Quaker American Friends Service Committee (AESC), Clergy and Laity Concerned (CALC) founded in 1965 by anti-war activists Rev. Martin Luther King and Rev. William Sloane Coffin, the Inter Faith Center for Corporate Responsibility, which represents 200 church groups, the United Methodists at the United Nations, the American Committee on Africa, and Trans Africa...
...though none of the individual student governments have opposed the idea of the umbrella organization, the members of the group still don't know what the coalition's status within the University will be. In fact, Business School Student Association President Neil Smith has abstained from voting several times because he had not discussed the issues at hand with his constituency...
...wonder of the P.L.O. is that it has managed to stay together so long. The umbrella organization is actually composed of at least eight groups. Foremost among the factions is Fatah, which holds an overwhelming majority of the seats on the Palestine National Council, the organization's de facto parliament. Headed by Arafat, Fatah enjoys the support of middle-class moderates and has few ideological goals other than the liberation of Palestine. Though Fatah receives most of its funds from the gulf states, primarily Saudi Arabia, and the Palestinian diaspora, it is the only group without binding ties...
...another action, the Harvard Council of Student Leaders--a recently formed umbrella organization comprised of the leaders of student governments from throughout the University--released a letter they will present at the ACSR forum...