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Nevertheless, there is some coordination--at Williams and elsewhere--among supporters of anti-apartheid actions. While advocates of divestiture at Harvard fasted last month, several students at Williams also staged brief "sympathy fasts." Students at Columbia University also staged a candlelight vigil in support of the Harvard hunger strikers at...
Student divestiture proponents, especially the South African Solidarity Committee, will likely monitor administration policies and will continue a series of demonstrations and candlelight vigils as in past years. A different kind of protest occurred in May when several students and one faculty member fasted for seven days in an attempt...
Nevertheless, there is some coordination--at Williams and elsewhere--among supporters of anti-apartheid actions. While advocates of divestiture at Harvard fasted last month, several students at Williams also staged brief "sympathy fasts." Students at Columbia University also staged a candlelight vigil in support of the Harvard hunger strikers at...
When informed of the telegram. Alan I. Jackson '84, one of the students who fasted said. "Let's hope Harvard follows the example of University of Michigan and makes the correct moral choice."
Campus activists said that Calkins' statement of Harvard's investment policy helped to trigger their protest movements. Alan L. Jackson '84, a spokesman for the 30 students and one professor who fasted for seven days to demand Harvard's total divestiture from South Africa, said that Calkins' statement represents Harvard...