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PROTESTS AT BUCKNELL?
0 ver the years. Buckneli has evolved as a policy ~n Central Amerlca or Saulh Africa Quickly, ther divestment
rlrong educational 8nrlilulion with brlght, though, protests became farhlonableand s carlaan As a result of student prolerfs. Bucknell
career-consc#ous, conrerval~ve studentr. In The Bucknel1,an poking fun at homosexuals Univernly'r Board of Tcurreer lenfallvely
Mort Bucknellianr study hard dvilng the week ellc~ted ~ tr own lltrle protest This all ~ulminated agreed to develop criteria beyond the Sullivan
and iel go on the weekends A pattern has
formed, Darlles are the reward for a week of
wllh the protests of a group called Students
Aaslnrt Pmterl.
pr8nc~pler. It seems they have recently dectded
focomplelely dtvest ~n South Afrlca tn one year
mental cramming Perhaps t h is ~ why students By far the mast prevalenl issue addressed by the 11 candll8onr do not change Great. The student
seem apatheflc toward5 national and interns- student act#v#rts thts year was apartheld in South act,v,rir had achieved the,, desired end
Lsonal cnras, they rlmply don't have hme in Afrhca Thls proved an especially fervent toplc Students had peaceably expressed themselves
then busy schedule. since Buckneil Unwemty holds stock mn several and convinced the board lo change its pos~tlan
Upon relurning to Bucknell thlr fail, the stu- companies whlch do burmess either 8n or with towards South Africa, an enormous feat.
dent body noflced an unusual occurrence on
CB~PVI. The l8beials and radicals, who for some
tune had been mereivexoressrno , . - their views m
The Bucknellian . were actually organlzlng and
South Africa. Students Against Apartheld and the
Bucknell Student Government sponsored several
sneakers to tnform the rfudenls of conditions 8n
9131 111 Alru nopng In?, ro.ld on f?r hannenpecwlly
when you consider thal the student
activists accounted far less than three percent
of the Bucknelistudent bod"
Whet a scandal, How can such a small
leading protesls The protestors were now frying
loact#vely educate the rtudent body and adm,nirtration
in an effort to create changes.
""qul, 0) rrtr I ng aga 75, Ihc .n ve-r I) 5 I."?.'. minartly speak for all Bucknell rtudenlP Of
mtn. 02 c. n addmto? etter ur I no ramoa . onr " course. they can't. Although student aclivrptr
dally noon broteslr, petiaans.and vagxlr conrt~tuted seemed lo be making great sfrldes. the Llncverit
reemr that there protests actually had their some of the activists' measures to gain suppon rlty as a whole hadn't changed in fact, a group
roots planted 8" the spring of the 84-85 agahnrt apartheid
ot 3rudeots known aa Students Agamst
academ~c year. The recond semester of the1 Student activrrts turned to Bucknell's Board of Students Aga~nrt Apartheid farmed to express
year raw unprecedented student support and
participation rn two major demon%trafions. The
Trustees 8n hoper of also gaining their lupport.
When students returned to campus for the bll
their dlrdain for this small minority who were
relatina the minorilv view as the studenl bodv's
first was a letler wrltlng campslgn In response
to the Reagan Admlnirtrafian'a cuts rn
cueranteed student ~oanr The recond war a
semester. the board's position towards South
Afrcca war a pollcy of selective investment in companler
thal met the higher, crlterla ~n support of
consensus.
Selective involvement best describer rludent
acf8vlsm on Burknell's camous and events of
student rlt-in at the academic quad, complete
with kegs, on a runny Friday afleroooo. The
black South African employees. In a 1979 policy
dedaon. the board refused to lnved in South
,he part year demonstrate that Bucknell
pmsesser a loud, albeit rmali, group luhlrh 8s
sit-ln war to protest the administration's
lion on student life and parlier
Afncan companler unless they complied wlth the not afrald to stand up and voice lhelr oplnlonr
Sullivan pr8nclples on pay and vorklng condlt~onr Time wlil tell whether Buckneli w1i1 rema," a
By the recond semester this year, the typtal
Bucknellian found hlmrelf confronted by profor
black worker. in September, the board had
lhmlted 8,s investments $0 a small group of combeautiful
school with an indurfnour. career-
CO~ICIOUS student body or become a leader ~n
testors almost once a week. The proterts panies rated Group I, those holding the highest attempting to change the wing tide of conlergenerally
occurred at noon at the uphill en- ranking ~n promoting educational and economlc vat~rmcrorrlng the country.
trance to the U.C. The protests initially focused
on oathma1 or mlernatmnai topics such as US
opparfunlfier for blacks in South Africa. Student
aclivlslJ protested the board'% poJifi0". "rglng fur
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