Word: witwatersrand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...form of admission policy based on criteria other than academic criteria." His colleges have denounced almost unanimously the proposed quota system as an affront to the principles of university autonomy and racial equity in higher education. Furthermore, the senate of the largest institution involved, the University of the Witwatersrand, issued a pointed statement last month, nothing that the University's leaders condemned any attempt to "compel the university to become an instrument of the Government's policy of discrimination against students on grounds of race...
...student leaders and, embarrassingly enough for the government, the niece of Pieter Koornhof, Pretoria's Minister for Race Relations. Last week the government moved again, slapping a five-year banning order on David Johnson, president of the black students' society at Johannesburg's University of the Witwatersrand. Protested one angry student: "No words can adequately express the revulsion we feel at such state action...
From the outset, however, the celebrations ran afoul of the country's bitter, racially divided heritage. At Johannesburg's University of the Witwatersrand, black and white students boycotted classes to protest the festival and set off three days of demonstrations, flag burnings and brawls. On the outskirts of the city, police fired tear gas and waded into crowds of demonstrators with dogs and sjamboks, quirts traditionally used by Afrikaner farmers and originally made of rhino hide. Soon more than 50 organizations with a total membership in the millions were formally boycotting the festivities. Declared an ad hoc committee...
...England, the Eliot House crew took part and didn't win the Challenge Cup.Instead, the U.S. Olympic shell--coached by Harry Parker, who else?--triumphed over the New Zealand Olympic squad in the final. In the lightweight division, Harvard's Eastern sprints champion boat fell in the semifinals to Witwatersrand of South Africa...
...England, the Eliot House crew took part and didn't win the Challenge Cup.Instead, the U.S. Olympic shell--coached by Harry Parker, who else?--triumphed over the New Zealand Olympic squad in the final. In the lightweight division, Harvard's Eastern sprints champion boat fell in the semifinals to Witwatersrand of South Africa...