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...University of California, Berkeley, sidewalk vendors selling cappuccino and sukiyaki did a brisk business as some 3,000 well-behaved protesters assembled in front of Sproul Hall to demand that the university divest itself of holdings in companies with investments in South Africa. At Columbia University in New York City, hundreds of students held a similar antiapartheid demonstration by blockading a campus building. At the University of Colorado in Boulder, 450 demonstrators were arrested while attempting to disrupt CIA recruitment interviews. To oppose military research at the University of Minnesota, ten students staged a "kill-in" by opening a canister...
...campus are South Africa, Central America, the CIA, the threat of nuclear war and proposed federal budget cuts in education. Of these, South Africa has engendered the widest protest, a movement inspired by the continuing arrests of demonstrators outside the South African embassy in Washington. Among the campuses, Berkeley and Columbia, two seed-beds of '60s radicalism, are once again leading the march. At Columbia, which has $33 million invested in concerns doing business in South Africa, the blockade of Hamilton Hall has continued more than two weeks. At Berkeley, mass rallies were triggered early last week when police arrested...
Some faculty members think that the burgeoning student movement is due to prosperity, not politics. One reason protests have revived, suggests Stanford Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset, is because the economy is healthy. Agrees Berkeley Sociologist Neil J. Smelser: "Students are willing to get into a bit of trouble now because they are confident and don't feel the risk they did two or three years...
Even though they ended up losing, letting Northwestern go on to beat Berkeley for the number-one spot, they did better than Harvard has at the NDT in a decade...
...untold damage to rivers and their fish populations, while offering no guarantee that the revenue will improve people's lives. "Laos has a track record of poorly-managed projects that create more poverty than they solve," says Aviva Imhof, campaign director of International Rivers Network, which is based in Berkeley, California. Imhof has tracked the project for a decade and, together with the Canada-based Probe International, led a global campaign to have it halted. "Laos is repeatedly being rewarded for its failure," says Probe's policy director Grainne Ryder...