The Nation - News from April 8, 1985
More than 100 students at Columbia University in New York marked a fourth day of protesting the school’s investments in companies doing business with South Africa by sending telegrams to the university’s president and trustees. The demonstrators, who have blocked the main entrance to an administration building since Thursday, want the school to divest itself of about $30 million in endowment funds tied to South Africa to protest that nation’s apartheid policy.
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