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From: burk@uwvax.UUCP (Bill Burk)
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Subject: Re: Fall break and other topics
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Date: Tue, 19-Nov-85 23:37:35 EST
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> 
> How about divestment? 
> 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. Many students and faculty
> insist that this be done on moral grounds; how can we, as a Christian
> institution, continue to support (albeit indirectly) the racist
> apartheid regime while secular schools have had the moral fortitude
> to do so? This is not by any means an attempt at any sort of 
> comparison between religious and secular institutions, just one part
> of the divestment issue for us.
> 
> What about the rest of net-land?
> 
> Kari Knutson
> ...ihnp4!stolaf!knutsonk

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UW-Madison divested long ago (I've forgotten how many years) .... last
semester, a group of students started a movement to try to convince the
state to divest.  It was kind of wild .... the students "took over" the
Capital for ~1 week.  They were able to convince the Governor to form 
a panel to look into the merits of divesting .... I haven't heard anything
since.

DISCLAIMER:  I did not take part in this movement, details that I have given
are from people who DID take part.  I apologize if I have in some way given
wrong information.


New Topic:
The big question here lately, is whether or not porno mags such as
Playboy, Playgirl, and Penthouse should be sold in the campus unions.
Anything like this happening elsewhere??

-Bill Burk