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...Abe Stays Home...
Last spring, South African diplomat Abe Hoppenstein paid a visit to Harvard to give a talk to the Conservative Club, and in the process sparked an divestment protest and rally which turned unusually violent. Hoppenstein was asked by the College body charged with disciplining the students involved in the protest-turned-blockade to return to the scene of the alleged crime, not to talk politics, but to discuss his version of the incident, in which about 200 students blocked his exit from Lowell House. Hoppenstein, however, declined the invitation, saying that he did not "want to get involved in domestic...
...York City Consul General for South Africa Abe S. Hoppenstein said he will neither appear before nor send written testimony to the CRR because he does not "want to get involved in domestic matters...
...Harvard really wanted to defend free speech, it would have allowed police to arrest the students who blocked South Africa Consul General Abe S. Hoppenstein in the Lowell House Junior Common Room, just as protesters have been booked at colleges and consulates around the country. Ironically, although officials argue that the May 2 incident should be treated internally, the students involved would receive more due process before a real court...
Spence told the Faculty three days ago that he thought the CRR should proceed this spring to avoid any "memory loss" of the two incidents, the student sit-in at the Corporation's Quincy St. offices and the blockade of a Lowell House reception for South African official Abe S. Hoppenstein, which might occur over the summer Faculty delegates to the CRR change on June...