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About 400 Boston University professors and students walked out of class yesterday to protest the school's awarding an honorary degree to the controversial chief of the Zulu tribe in South Africa...
...think most people worth honoring would be controversial," said Sam McCracken, assistant to Silber. He said that the Zulu chief is a leader who "Works within the system [of apartheid] to destroy...
Students and faculty at Boston University are up in arms over the school's decision to award an honorary law degree today to the Zulu Chief, Mangosuthu Garsha Buthelezi, who many South African Black leaders have condemned as an obstacle to the effort to end apartheid...
Eric V. Puchala, president of the BU Political Forum, says that because the South African government appointed Buthelezi to lead the 6 million Zulus--and that the Zulus must align themselves with the Zulu party--Buthelezi actually "suppresses" opposition to apartheid...
Goldman says Buthelezi assumed responsibility for leading the Zulu people in order to prevent their homeland from becoming a "so-called independent Bantustan." Goldman cites the chief's role in efforts to form a South African legislature made up of both Black and whites as another reason for honoring him with a degree...