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...among Reagan's earliest choices for his Cabinet, but announcement of the appointment was held up by the requirements of the Ethics in Government Act. While other appointees whose wealth consists of diverse holdings can satisfy the act by establishing so-called blind trusts, Donovan was forced to divest himself of his $22 million in Schiavone stock...
PRINCETON, N.J.-- Princeton University trustees are considering protesting Citibank's proposed $250 million loan to the South African government, and if the loan is approved Princeton may divest its holdings in Citibank, university officials said...
Davis and the other speakers also said that the University response to the threats must be set against the University's failure to divest of its South African stocks, the unnecesarily lengthy Committee reviewing process examining the need for a Third World Center and the recent Klitgaard report, all of which are viewed as insults to the Third World community. With these issues in mind, Third World students labeled the University's recently avowed commitment to a new agressive recruiting policy of minorities for junior faculty posts as merely a public relations effort...
...South African Solidarity Committee (SASC) met last night to outline the group's goals in its attempts to convince the university to divest of its holding in companies doing business in South Africa...
...combination of leaving her supportive home environment and exposing herself to more blatant forms of racism made her increasingly conscious of her race. The University's refusal to divest its stocks, the "abomination of final clubs" and a general lack of University support for the Afro-American studies department contributed to her realization that Harvard was steeped in a heritage and traditions that completely excluded minorities. Her feeling of being "at the University but not of it" was also compounded by being female--"I didn't even know if I was a Harvard or Radcliffe student," she says, adding...