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From: skala@stolaf.UUCP (Valerie Skala)
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Subject: Re: Fall break and Apartheid
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Date: Tue, 19-Nov-85 12:42:57 EST
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> Here at St. Olaf, we are attempting to get our Board of Regents to
> divest all portions of the College's Endowment that are invested in
> companies with holdings in South Africa. 
> Kari Knutson
> ...ihnp4!stolaf!knutsonk

I would just like to point out that not every student at St. Olaf
is clamoring for divestment.  I for one think the whole issue
is stupid.  What is the point?  Showing the world that St. Olaf
College will not stand for oppression in the world?  Well, what
about the oppression of the Afghans, the Poles, etc. by the Soviet Union?  
What about the way the Marxist government of Ethiopia is letting
its people starve to death (by failing to distribute the wealth
the world is trying to share with them)?  My point is, if things
are so bad in South Africa, why are so many blacks from other
African nations trying to get into South Africa?  
I'm not saying I'm in favor of apartheid--I think it's terrible.
But I don't understand the people who cry "U.S. out of Central America" 
and then turn around and declare that the U.S. MUST intervene in South Africa.

I may be conservative, but I am NOT a fascist (I don't think
most people even understand what that word means, and yet
I've been called that by some of the bleeding heart liberals on campus.)
I am simply getting tired of the "Bitch America" sentiment that seems
so prevalent at St. Olaf.  Does anyone else out
there feel the way I do? The U.S. may have problems,
that we are still better off than 3/4's of the rest of the world.

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Valerie Skala                             |  If I can't do cartwheels, |
 . . . !ihnp4!stolaf!skala                |  I don't want to go.       |
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