Fast News Spreads

More than 30 Harvard students ended their fast aimed at protesting Harvard's investments in companies doing business in South Africa more than two weeks ago, but their action continues to attract widespread attention and support.

Representatives of the Washtenaw Country, Mich. Coalition Against Apartheid and the University of Michigan Faculty Against Apartheid this week sent a telegram to The Harvard Crimson expressing their support of "those fasting for divestment."

University of Michigan recently divested its $45 million of holdings in companies dealing in South Africa because of a new Michigan law requiring divestiture. That law is currently under appeal.

Len Suransky, a Michigan lecturer who sent the telegram, said in an interview yesterday that if Harvard were to divest, it "would send a signal throughout the entire university system."

When informed of the telegram. Alan I. Jackson '84, one of the students who fasted said. "Let's hope Harvard follows the example of University of Michigan and makes the correct moral choice."