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Anxious to establish the internships quickly, the committee charged by President Derek C. Bok to establish the program failed to realize the implications of the internship idea in South Africa. By rushing the program to preempt the activities of divestment activists this spring, the committee, chaired by Steiner, neglected to consult with Black South African leaders or to adequately research prospective internships. The committee also failed to take into consideration harsh criticism of the program by Black South Africans at Harvard and offered a tentative list of internships at nine institutions which would provide little or no benefit to Blacks...
...University's actions were slipshod. Moreover, Harvard officials have yet to acknowledge the inadequacy of the internship program as it currently stands. They have refused to meet with the authors of the report or to agree not to send interns to the programs it criticizes. These actions are a minimal first step; they should be taken immediately. Instead the University seems determined to continue the internship program on its present course despite clear inadequacies...
...committee set a deadline for applicationsto the internship program for the last day inJanuary. Letters the program had been distributedto South Africans and contacts, and news of theprogram was spread about. Harvard got responsesfrom several organizations and a list of ninepotential opportunities was made available toapplicants at the Office of Career Services (OCS).Although the University had not begun to reallycompile a list of internships, it was alreadyaccepting applications...
...mess became public last week when theSouthern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC), apro-divestment student group on campus, released areport charging that the internship program was"structurally flawed" because the Universityfailed to consult with Black South Africans"representng real political constituencies" whensetting up the program...
...result of this is a program that, if[Harvard] goes ahead with the listed internships,it will harm everyone: Black South Africans,Harvard University, and people... who are put inmisleading situations and return to the UnitedStates with a distorted picture of life in SouthAfrica and of the state of South African society,"the report charges, after exhaustively attackingthe value of internship possibilities listed atOCS...