The Nation - News from March 2, 1986
Trustees at Swarthmore College voted to sell all of its $42.5 million in investments in companies that operate in racially segregated South Africa. The board ordered the school to immediately sell its stock in companies that do not comply with the Sullivan Principles, a voluntary code of conduct that calls for racial equality in the workplace. About 50 students took over college President David Fraser’s office for two weeks in December to demand divestiture. Swarthmore is a suburb of Philadelphia.
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