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...Harvard, student protesters have lain low after the conclusion of a peaceful and orderly rally last week in the Tercentenary Theater and a 24-hour vigil outside Massachusetts Hall...
WHILE WE wholeheartedly agree that President Bok must make himself more personally accountable to his divestiture critics, we cannot, as the majority does, downplay Bok's conspicuous absence throughout the two day period of last week's pro-divestiture rally and subsequent vigil outside Massachusetts Hall. That absence bespeaks a caution and arrogance that has made Bok a first-rate lawyer-and a third-rate leader...
...publicize his views on a Congressional fight over sanctions against South Africa, B should have set aside some time to address the divestiture battle being played out on his own campus last week. But Bok avoided first the University- conference following the rally and, more important, the peaceful vigil outside his office from Thursday through Friday afternoon-avoiding his office entirely for those two days. Those protesters had explicitly disavowed any intent even to bar administrators from entering the building...
Given the nonmilitant character of the vigil Bok's unwillingness to come face to face with the demonstrators, much less speak to them directly, reveals a cynical indifference to such protest. Last week's events were an emotional, But reasoned call for change that deserved, at the very least, the courtesy of a reply...
...apartheid activity once again brought to the foreground the depth of the emotional feeling the divestiture issue raises on campus. More that 5000 students thronged the Yard to hear the Rev. Jesse I. Jackson denounce Harvard's ties to South Africa, and then some 75 staged an all-night vigil outside Massachusetts Hall. If there were any doubts as to whether the campus divestiture movement would be able to summon the strength for another spring drive, they were decisively dispelled...