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While You Were Away ...

Hit 'em where it hurts

By Francis J. Connolly and Andrew Multer

Officials announced that the Harvard College Fund Drive for 1978 raised a record $6.31 million, surpassing its goal by $60,000. Nonetheless, donations from the Class of '78 were way below expectations, owing to a boycott by many seniors who protested the University's investment policy on South Africa. The drop in donations "indicates that many students are committed enough to withhold what the University needs--which is money," a member of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee said.

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