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...There's a group of a few hundred kids who are very active in politics," says Noah M. Berger '89, a member of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC), a group of divestment activists who constructed a shantytown in the Yard last April...
...home, the Committed Artists, the Earth Players, the Bahumutsi Drama Group and the other black groups featured in the festival work largely in the dark. Since theaters are nonexistent in South African townships, the companies operate like the mystery players of medieval England, wandering from shantytown to shantytown and staging their dramas in churches, schoolrooms or whatever space is available. And since printed texts might be considered subversive, they commit little of their improvised theater to paper...
...There's a group of a few hundred kids who are very active in politics," says Noah M. Berger '89, a member of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC), a group of divestment activists who constructed a shantytown in the Yard last April...
...There's a group of a few hundred kids who are very active in politics," says Noah M. Berger '89, a member of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC), a group of divestment activists who constructed a shantytown in the Yard last April...
Last spring students protesting the University's $413 million in companies that do business with South Africa built a shantytown on campus. Rather than force a face-off, which could have led to arrests, the University allowed the buildings to remain standing through Commencement, giving them police protection and lighting and allowing the shanties to remain up even during Commencement. Pusey says he doesn't know how he would react to such a situation...