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Several other colleges and universities, including Hampshire College, the University of Wisconsin, and Ohio State University, have already publicly announced that they will rid themselves of stock in companies that support the South Africa government. To these schools, the obvious repression and denial of human rights that characterize the minority rule in South Africa made their claims as institutions of freedom and learning hypocritical as long as they continued to hold the tainted stocks...
...defend democracy: get rid of the army...
...about. One doesn't have to be told how to react, one reacts. And I don't have to force people to feel something...What gets in the way is a mind saying 'Oh, no, that's wrong' or 'that shouldn't be done.' Well, what if you got rid of all those and just said. 'This is what it is. Maybe if I look at it for a while it might grow interesting...
Vanderbilt alumni were desperately trying to get rid of a coach. After two successive 2-9 seasons, wealthy alums raised $100,000 worth of walking money for Head Coach Fred Pancoast. The total included his $40,000 salary for the remaining two years of his contract, plus a $20,000 bonus for bowing out. There are no greener pastures open to 4-18 coaches, however, so Pancoast turned down the offer. Said he: "I'm the head coach of Vanderbilt until I'm told otherwise." Vanderbilt President Emmett Fields backed Pancoast, asserting that the university would not break...
Nothing is more important than self-knowledge. Once I had come to know what I wanted, and got rid of what I didn't, I was reconciled to myself and learned to live in peace. To return to my village became a lovely dream, and work in any field simply charming. The future?both foreseeable and unforeseeable?was a joy to contemplate...