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Harvard officials have acknowledged the Sullivan guidelines as a reasonable set of investment standards, but have failed to pay strict attention to them when deciding how to handle its $2 billion portfolio. Most of the recent protests--including a student hunger strike (see story, page four)--have urged the Corporation to divest itself of all holdings in South Africa...
HARVARD'S ISN'T the only American university campus beset by protests against the apartheid regime in South Africa. At Williams College, students recently staged a hunger strike to dramatize their opposition the school's investments in companies operating in the racist state Responding to student outcry, the University of Michigan has actually agreed to partial divestiture from such firms What is perhaps less well known is that students at universities outside the U S have began to register their disapproval as well...
...admire the spirit in which seven Harvard students have decided to fast for divestiture. But just how effective will a fast be? A few years ago, every newspaper carried stories about the hunger strikers in Northern Ireland. Today, the British are in Ireland, along with a few more graves. I'm sure the students here are fasting for a limited time, but I don't think they will even get the token gestures that Williams conceded to its strikers...
Phone calls expressing support for the hunger strikers have been coming in at a rate of 10 per hour, according to Zellen...
...students began a hunger strike at 6 p.m. yesterday to protest Harvard's investments in the apartheid state...