About 30 students carrying protest signs and chanting anti-apartheid slogans picketed the meeting of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) at the Faculty Club yesterday.
Members of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC), which organized the demonstration, said yesterday the demonstration's purpose was to urge the University to take a moral stand against investing in companies operating in South Africa.
The SASC also called on the University to sell its almost $17 million of bonds and other short-term notes in banks lending money to the South African government. The University last week sold some of its stock in such banks for "financial reason."
Henry B. Reiling, chairman of the ACSR and professor of Business Administration, said yesterday he was glad to see the picketers. "We're basically working for the same thing, and all these students out here on such a cold day shows significant interest on this issue," he said.
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