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...instance, if divestment was your issue, and you belonged to SASC, you have a group picture and a paragraph which describes your goals and actions. Of course, you may be surprised to read that SASC is "a variety of organizations and several dedicated individuals." So are the friends of the Franklin Park Zoo. But unlike the Friends--and 163 of the 197 real undergraduate organizations--SASC did make it into the yearbook...
Particularly distressing was the omission of some groups that were equivalent in size and purpose to those that were included. SASC and The Salient made it and so did Room 13--but don't look for the Committee on Central America, Perspective or the four other peer couseling groups on campus...
...SASC members have continually said that they would remove the structures only when the University meets a list of demands, including total divestment of its $416 million in companies which do business in South Africa. In negotiation meetings with administrators last week, they also refused to move the shanties to an area which is not used for Commencement activities...
About two weeks ago Spence sent a letter to the South African Solidarity Committee (SASC), which orchestrated the building of the shantytown in April, requesting that they remove the shanties "within a few days...
...SASC members said that their decision tokeep the shanties standing was inevitable. "Ithink it is likely that there will be some peoplewho are irritated by the presence of theshantytown, but what we have to ask these peopleis to realize what the shantytown is about andthat the reality of our investments in SouthAfrica translates directly into things like theshantytown," said Weissman