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From: duncan@dduck.ctt.bellcore.com (Scott Duncan)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: IBM pulls out of golf tourney - Hurrah!
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Date: 26 Jul 90 10:53:00 GMT
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In article <1060@ashton.UUCP> tomr@ashton.UUCP (Tom Rombouts) writes:
>
>                                     IBM's recent decision to remove their
>sponsorship of a major golf tournament to be held at a club
>near Montgomery, Alabama that allegedly does not admit minorities.

Whole not wanting to get into any lengthy discussion of the issue here, those
interested in following up on this outside the Net may want to know a couple
other points related to the tournament and future ones:

	o It is the PGA Tournament, I believe, which is one of the four
	  major golf tournaments in the world (along with the Masters, US
	  Open, and British Open);

	o The PGA in '92 (I believe that's the year) is scheduled to be
	  close to my backyard near Phgiladelphia at Aronomink Country
	  Club -- local news reporting on the current PGA plans and
	  companies pulling ads from it note that Aronomink has no black
	  members (presumably their 'official' policy does not say they
	  do not do so);

	o This is the first time anyone has, to my knowledge, made any kind
	  of national news mention of country clubs (or other kinds of sport
	  related ones) hosting such major events and noting issues of possi-
	  ble discrimination -- thus the power of what large companies can
	  do to influence opinion and news reports (and probably get some
	  people at the PGA to look into this for the future).

Speaking only for myself, of course, I am...
Scott P. Duncan (duncan@ctt.bellcore.com OR ...!bellcore!ctt!duncan)
                (Bellcore, 444 Hoes Lane  RRC 1H-210, Piscataway, NJ  08854)
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