"One of the dificulties that university andeducation officials face is interference frompolitical groups," Moulder says of the impact thenationalist government has had on his and otherschools. But the white educator also resistsgiving up his educational freedom to the politicalideology of Black leaders.

"The education system is beseiged on the onehand by the South African government on the otherhand by various political parties, especiallyBlack ones," says Moulder, commenting on the SouthAfrican situation. He adds that "all of them wantto hijack the education system for their ownpurposes."

He would not contact political groups such asthe UDF, which SASC wants Harvard to contact,because he believes that educators "have a betteridea than political groups" of how to fightapartheid in education.

Harvard clearly agrees. "The notion of academicfreedom involves academics being in touch witheach other, without regard to politics," Steinersays, arguing that Harvard should involve itselfwith universities around the world.

Other Black South Africans fear the program issimply another step in Harvard's attempt tojustify its investments in that nation. The firstexcuse is a policy of intensive dialogue; nowthese internships go in the face of Blackpolitical leaders calling for isolation.

"The most constructive thing to do is toaddress at a very basic level the question ofpower," says Nkondo, the author of banned bookcritical of the apartheid education system. Nkondoargues that the internship program will do nothingbut bolster the Pretoria government. He points tothe fact that for Harvard to help the majority ofBlacks and thereby avoid elitism, it will have towork within the structure of the racist regime inhomelands and townships.

Steiner refuses to disavow any type ofinternship, including those criticized in the SASCreport as being elitist or working with thestructure of the racist state's government. But hedoes point to the difference of working withindividual scholars, although they may be inhomeland universities, and working directly withgovernment sanctioned institutions.

And those opposed to Harvard's educationalinvolvement in South Africa don't totally rule outAmericans' ability to help them directly. Naiduproposes that Harvard send interns to colleges inthe countries surrounding South Africa, such asLesotho and Mozambique, where Black South Africanrefugees go for an education.

"We will definitely welcome you into ourcountry the day we get our freedom," Naidu adds.

The following is the temporary list ofavailable South African internship which wasposted in Room 308 of the Office of CareerServices (December 19, 1985):

St. John's College, Johannesburg:Internship--English language teaching for theirBlack pupils.

Michaelhouse, Natal: Internship--someoneto teach, coach sports, and assist with culturalactivities (Dolf Berle is current intern).

St. George's Grammar School, Mowbray:Internship--to teach science and/or Mathematics,Biology or computer science to boys from 13 to 17years of age.

The Rossing Foundation, Namibia: Twokinds of internships

--teaching internships for interns with aknowledge of teaching English as a foreignlanguage.