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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...
Calling the blockade "an unpleasant event not becoming Harvard," Hoppenstein said he is "disturbed that students should be able to determine who speaks on campus...
...protesters came not to listen but to wreak havoc," Hoppenstein added. "I would have gladly heard them and fielded their questions...
...Hoppenstein, who had come to Harvard to speak in a Kennedy School forum that included a representative of the anti-apartheid African National Congress, said "if protesters had taken the trouble they could've heard [both speeches]" the night before Hoppenstein spoke at Lowell House...
Despite the blockade, however, Hoppenstein said his "respect and regard for Harvard is in no way diminshed." He added that he seeks "no retribution" for the May 2 protest...