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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Massachusetts (of $631,000), Ohio University (of $38,000), Michigan State (of $8.5 million), and the University of Wisconsin (of $11 million). Other colleges have chosen partial divestiture, or selling stock selectively in those companies that fail to observe the Sullivan principles, a set of guidelines established by the Rev. Leon Sullivan, a black civil rights activist and General Motors board member, which outline affirmative-action policies. Among them: Amherst ($1 million), Smith ($680,000), Columbia ($2.7 million), Boston University ($7 million), Brandeis ($350,000), Yale ($900,000), Vassar ($2.2 million), Ohio State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Keeping Score | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

...Baccalaureate Service also included readings by Robin B. Balthrope '79, Katie Forsman '79, Gary M. Barrett'79, Barbara A. Mullin '79 and Michael R. Eastman '79, as well as various hymns, and an invocation by Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and minister in Memorial Church...

Author: By Richard F. Strasser, | Title: Bok, Horner Speak at Baccalaureate | 6/6/1979 | See Source »

PRESIDENT Bok, however, remains skeptical of assertions that corporate withdrawal will benefit non-whites in South Africa. But in doing so he overlooks, as the anti-apartheid groups claim, nearly every major black leader in South Africa. And he seems oblivious to the contentions of Rev. Desmond Tutu, a black South African leader who will receive an honorary degree at Commencement, that foreign investment in South Africa maintains apartheid...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Closing the Ranks | 6/5/1979 | See Source »

...Rev. Desmond Tutu, black South African leader and opponent of U.S. investment in that country, will receive an honorary degree at Thursday's Commencement ceremonies, The Boston Globe reported Saturday...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Black South African Activist Will Receive Honorary Degree | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...government restraints, as well as a democratic vote in the choice of council leaders. Though the hated orders were rescinded, the bond of trust between the leadership and the more impassioned Baptists was broken. The Reformers formally went into schism, setting up their own church council with the Rev. Gennadi Kryuchkov, now 52, as president and Vins as secretary. To dramatize the need for an overhaul of Soviet legal restrictions on religious life, Vins and Kryuchkov led a daring march on Communist Party headquarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Submission to God Alone | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

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