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...even more disappointing than Harvard's insistence on contradicting the democratic principles it purports to uphold is the failure of minority groups and liberal activists to respond to the most egregious vestige of aristocracy remaining at Harvard. In the past, we have urged these groups to place the legacy issue on the activist agenda. Their response was resounding silence...
Harvard currently follows a policy of selective divestment, under which it sells its holdings only in companies that are believed to uphold apartheid...
...that are justified far too often. Any such attempt to interfere with the dissemination of Constitutionally protected speech is an affront not only to the victims of the theft, but to the values of academic freedom, free expression and liberal tolerance that all members of the Harvard community should uphold...
...Baldwin argued that sanctions had been effective in Rhodesia, because many long-suffering Blacks joined the insurgent National Liberation Front, which eventually toppled the dominant regime by military force. Thus, in the relatively short period of 12 years, sanctions were "successful." In fact, many academic proponents of economic sanctions uphold the case of Rhodesia as their single most successful application...
...disregard by the prince's staff for the basic principles of human rights. It is the willingness of American police officers to sell their services for lengthy hotel stays and disregard the protection of citizens and students. We believe that the Cambridge Police Department has failed to uphold its sworn duty to enforce the law, and that its officers have lied by denying that they witnessed an assualt that they had watched from a distance of 10 feet...