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From: thoma@reed.UUCP (Ann Muir Thomas)
Newsgroups: net.college
Subject: Re: Divestment Issues at Reed College
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Date: Mon, 27-Jan-86 14:00:11 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 27 14:00:11 1986
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Welll....hmm....as just another Reedie, I'd like to let you all
know that I support the people occupying Eliot Hall to protest
the Reed College Board of Trustees' decision to not divest funds
from South Africa.

However....the issue of preserving academic freedom during the
occupation has come up.  The current policy is that students and
faculty, but not administrators, are being allowed into Eliot Hall.
Our computing facilities are mainly located there (or here, in my
reality), as well as some classrooms and the Psychology, Math, Art
History, and German departments.  When I came in here to use the
computer, the "doorguard" did not want to let me in, because I
work for the college in a number of faculties (word???).  I am
also a full-time student at Reed.  Which aspect of my being here
would win out?  Would the doorguard consider me one of "them" or
one of "us"?  As it turned out, my student status held, but
not without considerable harassment.

I would like to know what has happenned during occupations on
other campuses...about policies towards "academic freedom", who
was allowed into the occupied areas, etc.

Ann Muir Thomas
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