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...until 1978 that a wide-ranging student movement began to promote the cause of divestiture. At the center was the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC), founded in November of that year SASC managed to organize a tenuous coalition of disparate minority and political groups into the United Front, and led them through a series of mass rallies and demonstrations that culminated just before reading period. SASC called on the ACSR to recommend to the Corporation that it sell stocks in banks making loans to the South African government, support shareholder resolutions calling for complete corporate withdrawal, and issue a clear...
...protest quieted down until 1982, when the University attempted to retreat on the 1978 commitment. The University asked the ACSR to approve an end to the ban on investment in banks lending money to South Africa. SASC reactivated itself, and packed on open meeting of the ACSR with 300 students. One after another, students including representatives from the Conservative Club rose to urge the ACSR not to change its stand. The ACSR stuck to its original position, and urged the Corporation to maintain the ban The Corporation...
...Endowment for Divestiture was the brainchild of SASC which suggested the idea to a group of about 40 seniors, many of whom had been active in campus political organizations the semester before. The newly formed Undergraduate Council supported the plan, and voted to act as administrator of the fund...
...protest quieted down until 1982, when the University attempted to retreat on the 1978 commitment. The University asked the ACSR to approve an end to the ban on investment in banks lending money to South Africa. SASC reactivated itself, and packed an open meeting of the ACSR with 300 students. One after another, students--including representatives from the Conservative Club--rose to urge the ACSR not to change its stand. The ACSR stuck to its original position, and urged the Corporation to maintain the ban. The Corporation...
...Endowment for Divestiture was the brain child of SASC, which suggested the idea to a group of about 40 seniors, many of whom had been active in campus political organizations the semester before. The newly formed Undergraduate Council supported the plan and voted to act as administrator of the fund...