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School Will Divest of All Companies Doing Business in South Africa...
Wheaton College, in Norton, Mass., will divest of all holdings in companies doing business in South Africa by the end of 1988, the chairman of the college's Board of Trustees announced last Saturday...
LAST SATURDAY'S forum in Boston was sponsored by the Democratic Club and the Radcliffe Union of Students. An agglomeration of about 50 activists showed up ready to demand University glasnost. The strategy of pursuing "influence" rather than a specific action was devised after divestment activists found themselves banging their heads against walls trying to penetrate the Corporation. So they decided to talk to corporation members themselves and "convince" them to divest...
...learn ethics through the moral leadership of the university they attend. Bok, among others, has argued that the way institutions address their own ethical challenges can set an example for its students to learn from. But does that mean that students who attend Columbia, which has decided to divest its holdings in South Africa, are receiving a better ethical education than Harvard students...
Sullivan, a Philadelphia minister, drew widespread attention on Wednesday when he issued a long-anticipated call for institutional stockholders to divest all of their holdings. In the past, Sullivan had supported partial divestment...