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...full-time tenure staff that now numbers 146. Other DePauw dollars are going into undergraduate centers that combine learning with professional training. Best known is the Center for Management and Entrepreneurship, which attracted Student John Curran, among others, to DePauw. Curran, 22, has completed a six-month ( internship with Eli Lilly & Co. in Indianapolis. At the same time, he says, "I've been able to take my history and philosophy, my Greek and Roman mythology. It's an ideal bridge between a liberal arts degree and a practical education...
...divestment movement has won support from a number of Black South African leaders and brought Bishop Tutu to the University to speak in January. It has forced Harvard to scuttle its ill-conceived South African Internship Program. And it has forced debate and put the University administration on notice with the successful erection of a shantytown. But so far, Harvard officials have ignored the shanty building and seem determined to ignore students' demands...
...enough for Harvard University to voice its concerns for the welfare of Third World and minority peoples, both in South Africa and in the University. To aid them genuinely Harvard must concretely respond to their proposals, whether it be for consultation about internship programs, the construction of a Third World Student Center, or the creation of a Women's Studies Program...
...Second, it is clear and understandable that in South Africa and at Harvard political considerations may affect in significant ways what people say and what they do in response to the proposed internship program. The politicization has changed the nature and quality of the discussion and has led to divisiveness, especially in our own community. This result ill serves the interests of Harvard a people in South Africa." (Text of General Counsel Daniel Steiner's letter to President Bok on why the internship program has been suspended...
...contention on which the internship program rose and fell was that it represented what Black South Africans wanted us to do to help them. The University has also made this claim about its refusal to divest from corporations doing business in South Africa. In both cases, the claim is specious...