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...article "The Immorality of Divestment" (11/23/83). Robert Conway suggests that Harvard establish a South Africa center which would function, in part, as a source of information about South Africa for the Harvard community. While it is true that such a center is sorely needed, it should not be established with the intention proposed by Mr. Conway--as a "new alternative" to the "immoral" demands made by many students and faculty that Harvard divest its resources from corporations and banks that do business in South Africa Indeed, his stand against divestiture is a weak position which he supports with a concatenation...
...your Essay on the exclusion of the press from the Grenada invasion, you say, "The press has a serious quasiconstitutional function as a representative of the public." This statement is essentially correct. However, the function is self-assigned. The public, on the other hand, has not complained that the press was denied for a time its sensational headlines and pictures of Grenada...
...following suggestions seem to be partinent: The Harvard community has insufficient knowledge about South Africa. There is a real need to disseminate up-to-data information in the New England area. No institution on campus is fulfilling that function. To remedy this, a South African center should be established at Harvard...
...Function of the South African center at Harvard should...
...Welch) whose firm grips on their own careers make someone as passive as Dorothy look like a relic of a previous century. The achievements of such women do not contribute anything to the major philosophic or epistemological issues of our time, as models and entertainers that is not their function. They are simply in business within a free market economy. Their careers need neither inspire nor offend anyone. Armed with this independent outlook. Stratten could have become president of her own "company" (i.e. her professional self) and ruler of her own life; instead, she became one man's pawn...