Word: anti-apartheid
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...itself, the fervor of the divestment and disinvestment movements is somewhat incredible; the sight of college students agitating over stock policy might seem some sort of yuppie nightmare. The im- sort of yuppie nightmare. The impassioned tenor of these disputes makes sense only in the context of the broader anti-apartheid movement--which makes sense only in the context of apartheid...
...MORE THAN A fortnight, a small band of students has been barricading an administration building at Columbia Hoping to pressure the University to sell its stock in U.S. companies with South African operations, the zealous anti-apartheid activists chained shut Hamilton Hall'smain entrance and pitched camp on the building's steps...
...another major development, the demonstrators picked up endorsements from the anti-apartheid committee of the United Nations and the outlasted African National Congress (ANC). In a formal statement, the ANC also blasted Columbia's $34 million of investments-about 5 percent of its endowment-in companies that do business in "racist South Africa...
LAST WEEK'S resurgence of anti-apartheid activity once again brought to the foreground the depth of the emotional feeling the divestiture issue raises on campus. More that 5000 students thronged the Yard to hear the Rev. Jesse I. Jackson denounce Harvard's ties to South Africa, and then some 75 staged an all-night vigil outside Massachusetts Hall. If there were any doubts as to whether the campus divestiture movement would be able to summon the strength for another spring drive, they were decisively dispelled...
Several Harvard officials attending yesterday's anti-apartheid rally said they were impressed with the event, but said it was unfair that President Bok become the focus of personal criticism...