학술논문

Students, Stocks And Shanties.
Document Type
Article
Author
Source
Nation. 10/11/1986, Vol. 243 Issue 11, p337-340. 4p.
Subject
*STUDENTS
*SEA songs
*STUDENT activism
*UNIVERSITIES & colleges
*POLICE
*EDUCATION
Language
ISSN
0027-8378
Abstract
The 1985-86 academic year was a good one for the campus divestment movement. The biggest victory came in mid-July, when the University of California Board of Regents voted to sell all $3.1 billion of its stock in companies that do business in South Africa. University of California students put divestment on the Regents' agenda and kept it there. At Berkeley in April, when police attacked two dozen shanties, in the morning, some students linked arms and resisted arrest, while others erected barricades to stop police buses. The power of the shanties was evident in the opposition they provoked. At Utah and Johns Hopkins University shanties were set on fire at Dartmouth College they were attacked by right-wing students wielding sledgehammers.