Leaflet issues as part of a campaign to get Harvard University to divest from companies doing business in South Africa. The leaflet is a reprint of an article, "Divestment Vote Delayed," by Emily M Bernstein in the February 9, 1988 Harvard Crimson. Bernstein reports that the issue of divestment was removed from last weekend's Board of Overseers agenda, and a committee of the governing body has been charged with deciding whether the Board will take up the issue. The Board's executive committee also announced the appointment of Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 as staff assistant to the 16-member standing committee on institutional policy. Overseer President Samuel C. Butler...
Leaflet issues as part of a campaign to get Harvard University to divest from companies doing business in South Africa. The leaflet is a reprint of an article, "Divestment Vote Delayed," by Emily M Bernstein in the February 9, 1988 Harvard Crimson. Bernstein reports that the issue of divestment was removed from last weekend's Board of Overseers agenda, and a committee of the governing body has been charged with deciding whether the Board will take up the issue. The Board's executive committee also announced the appointment of Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 as staff assistant to the 16-member standing committee on institutional policy. Overseer President Samuel C. Butler '51 said the executive committee removed divestment from the agenda after Steiner and Secretary to the Governing Boards Robert Shenton made unusual visits to two-thirds of the overseers over the past month to discuss the proper role of the Board in dealing with divestment. Consuela M. Washington, one of the three overseers elected to the Board on a pro-divestment platform, said Steiner's presence could be seen as a source of pressure from the University administration to prevent the full Board from voting on divestment. Another pro-divestment overseer, Duke University Professor Peter H. Wood '64, presented a report on divestment at the December Board meeting, prompting a two-hour debate and an expected vote at the February 7-8 meeting.
