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Following the wedding, Silvestri plans to make a few visits to South Africa as he helps to establish a tutoring program there and to develop water purification technology in a continuation of a project begun with the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences’ David Edwards. Much of the work for both projects will be conducted from Boston, where he and Pope will be living. Silvestri will begin work at Oliver Wyman next January. Pope will work with her Christian ministry at Boston University before entering the Teach For America corps...
...furious anti-apartheid protestors flowed into the Lowell House courtyard upon learning that South African Consul-General Abe S. Hoppenstein was speaking to the Conservative Club. Protestors linked arms to create a human barricade, chanting “Conservative Club, what do you say? Would you invite...
...demonstration. The sound of shattering glass reverberated through the courtyard, panicking the crowds gathered there. According to an article written at the time, students blockaded Hoppenstein in the Lowell House Common Room for several hours to give him “the experience of thousands of Black and white South Africans jailed in hell-hole prisons...
Students from the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) staged the protest as part of their efforts to push President Derek C. Bok to divest Harvard’s endowment from companies conducting business with the apartheid government in South Africa...
Though Harvard never fully divested from South Africa, the protests forced the administration to grapple with its role in indirectly financing the apartheid regime, and made a deep impression on the student participants, who said their lives were shaped by the turbulent events...