Word: quints
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...Betsy E. Quint, president of the Student Government Association (SGA), which planned the event, said the experiment, along with yesterday's South African Awareness Day on the Simmons campus, was designed to raise student awareness of a variety of issues...
...issue of race on this campus and others nationwide. Another goal was to educate students on apartheid in South Africa," said Quint, who is a senior. "[We wanted] to give them, in a small sense, what it feels like to be in the majority, but yet to be discriminated against," she said...
...Quint said the experiment was also designed to help form a consensus of student opinion about the college's investments in companies that do business with South Africa...
According to Quint, the Simmons College Corporation has about $2 million invested in South Africa...
...Quint said SGA chose to divide the students as they did in order to raise awareness of race relations at Simmons. "Racism goes on right here on campus," she said...