The Region - News from May 9, 1986

Trustees of Pitzer College have voted to sell all of the college’s investments in companies doing business in South Africa in protest of that nation’s apartheid policy. The decision embraced the more sweeping of two divestiture alternatives recommended by a committee of faculty and students who had studied the college’s South Africa-related investments for a year. Pitzer, one of the Claremont Colleges, is an undergraduate school with about 700 students. A spokeswoman said the divestiture decision means that Pitzer will sell issues of about 20 stocks worth $2.1 million, out of $8.9 million in total investments.