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APARTHEID The September 24 Boston Globe reports, ‘That nearly $300 million in investments in firms operating in South Africa have been divested by American colleges - most of it coming from private schools, which tend to have the largest endowments. Across the nation colleges have divested, are partially divesting or are questioning the implications of divesting. Wheaton College is no exception.”’ While records of Sweet Honey Rock singing ‘‘Chili Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto” played, the concerned student body of Wheaton College assembled on Wednesday, October 9, 1985, on the Green between Park Hall and Mary Lyon for a rally addressing the issue of apartheid. Preparations for the rally included an optional student fast or boycott from all dining halls. The profits of this boycott : were to go to Oxfam and the anti-apartheid movement. Students also showed red, pei th! dl yellow, and green ribbons during the week. Signs and posters scattered throughout the campus showed the anticipation of the rally. The rally itself drew a crowd of approximately 300 spectators and featured some informative and dynamic speakers. Kim Sturges ’86 and Gail MacDonald 86 and a few other students began the challenge of apartheid by expressing their views and raising questions to the students of Wheaton College, ‘Why aren’t we (the student body) concerned with global issues?”’, ‘‘How are we involved?’. Their final statement resounded in the Green, ‘‘We should become more active.” President Emerson then took the opportunity to express her view and position. She argued the Sullivan principles which promote racial equality in employment. Pulling out suddenly would devastate South African employment. It must happen gradually, was her answer. Her overall view did agree with abandonment of apartheid, but she carefully pointed out how it was not her position to decide - it is the Board of Trustees decision. The most dramatic and most intense speaker was one who had actually witnessed the scene of apartheid. A South African Oe. student and poet now living in the United States, Zenzile, was the organizer of the ge “United States Out of South African Network’’. His speech showed such heavy emotion each listener could feel his anguish. He crept into their hearts as he told of ‘ . . . police gunning down innocent blood . . .’’. He remembered Martin Luther King with, ‘‘We have a dream .. .”’ and added to that on the previous note, ‘‘You can kill 1000 dreamers, but you can’t kill the dream.”’ Professors Gordon Weil and John Miller, of the economic department, had the opportunity to share their views from an economic stance. Professor Miller stated his stand distinctly when he said, ‘‘No more apartheid in my name.” The microphone as then opened for comments and remarks. Various concerned students conveyed their stands on the issue and its urgency., But as stated by the October 1985 issue of Fighting Back, ‘‘(Apartheid) will only be accomplished by the struggling, united and organized masses of South African people.’ However, it is our responsibility to help our fellow man receive his rightful freedom. The assertion and participation in this particular movement marks a highpoint in this years events. The Apartheid awareness on campus clearly demonstrates the genuine political concern permeating the Wheaton community.
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