Word: anti-apartheid
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...first major anti-apartheid action in several years, student activists push aside a University police officer standing guard at 17 Quincy St. and takeover the headquarters of the Harvard Corporation to protest the governing body's refusal to divest of South Africa-linked holdings...
While members of the Harvard Corporation have refused to meet with pro-divestment activists this fall, a prominent member of Yale's governing body said Saturday that anti-apartheid pressure will eventually force the New Haven school to sell its $400 million of investments in companies that do business in South Africa...
...that administrators must cease removing the signs and entering the students' rooms to force them to do so. Under the injunction, the school is also prohibited from taking disciplinary action against the four students--Yosef Abramowitz, Anthony Bedard, Jeffrey Weaver and George Lundskow--who violated university policy by displaying anti-apartheid signs and others on the outside of their dormitories...
...other students subsequently hung bannersbearing a variety of anti-apartheid messages,including "Tyranny Reigns When Good People DoNothing" and "Death to Apartheid." Weaver, amember of the ROTC, hung an American flag. Schoolofficials removed the banners almost immmediately...
...objective was, on the most obvious level, to run a major, visible anti-apartheid protest," King said...