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...article in your December 16, 1987 issue ("AAA Faces Charges of Racism") contained some serious and false allegations about Harvard and Radcliffe Alumni/ae Against Apartheid which demand response...
...Attorney General's investigation began in May 1986 after four members of Alumni Against Apartheid (AAA), which sponsored a three-person petition slate for the Board, alleged that the University unfairly biased the election in favor of its own 10-person official slate of candidates. It was the first time in close to two decades that non-official candidates had run for one of the five spots that open up on the 30-member body annually...
...AAA this spring amended its complaint toinclude new charges stemming from what they saidwas University mishandling of the 1987 overseerselection, the second time the group sponsored aslate of candidates. These second group of chargeswere filed before the election, a strategy whichactivists said was designed to preventelectioneering by the University. They said thatstrategy worked...
...Cambridge-based AAA is currently finalizingits slate of candidates for this year's election.Five candidates will be chosen from the 16-nameshort list which is being considered
Despite the election of two prodivestmentoverseers to the Board this year, even alumni saythey sense a falling off of interest in the issue.Two weeks ago, the group that sponsored thepetition candidates, Alumni Against Apartheid(AAA), decided to widen its agenda beyonddivestment. Organizers said they made the decisionin part because they didn't feel they couldattract new members to the organization solely onthe basis of divestment