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Brandeis University students yesterday erected a shantytown and said they would live in the plywood shacks until the Waltham school agrees to divest of its South Africa linked investments.
According to students participating in the protest, Brandeis President Evelyn E. Handler has agreed to discuss Brandeis' investments with protest leaders within the next several days. Handler and other Brandeis officials could not be reached for comment last night.
A Brandeis official declined to put a dollar figure on the protested holdings, but he said the school currently has about 2 percent of its endowment invested in companies doing business in the apartheid state.
"From the very beginning she fought for equality," said Sissela Bok, Myrdal's daughter and a professor of Ethics at Brandeis University, said yesterday. She said that her mother worked for many causes but did not abandon any one.
The Greater Boston Championships have traditionally given area colleges (Boston College, Brandeis, Boston University, MIT, Northeastern, Tufts and Harvard) the opportunity to fight it out for the bragging rights of Boston collegiate track.