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...YORK-Five Columbia students fasting in protest of the university's stocks in companies that do business in South Africa ended their 15-days hunger strike last night after a 95-minute meeting with university President Michel I. Sovern...
During the meeting between the fasters and Sovern-the first since they began the hunger strike-Sovern agreed to "convey their [the strikers'] concerns to the special committee of trustees studying South African investment policy," according to a statement released by the university at 8:30 p.m. yesterday. The 23-member board of trustees has final say over investment policy...
Joining a rising wave of protest against South African apartheid that has built up to today's nationwide protests (See story, page 1). Students at Columbia and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst yesterday continued a hunger strike...
...Columbia more than 50 students are staging an open-ended hunger fast in an attempt to pressure Columbia to divest of $39 million for about 5 percent of its endowment--invested in companies which do business in South Africa...
...They believe very much in what they're doing," Townsend said. "They believe in their country, in their families, and in their people." Added Townsend, "I feel really angry, and the anger is keeping me from feeling the hunger...