The Michigan Daily - Thursday, May 5, 1983- Page 7
Harvard fasts for divestment
Thirteen students and one professor
at Harvard University went on a week-
long fast to protest the school's invest-
ments in companies which operate in
South Africa.
The fasters, who survived on only
fruit and liquids for seven days, said
they wanted to make a statement
against South Africa's apartheid
policies.
THE FASTdid not persuade Harvard to
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divest, but it did increase student
awareness of the controversy.
The Black Students Association an-
nounced at the end of the week that they
would continue to fast for one day each
week until Harvard divested.
In a related move a committee for-
med to collect money traditionally
reserved for the "senior gift" which is
donated to Harvard every year by the
graduation class, and save it in a
special fund until the school divests.
- The Harvard Crimson
Stanford refuses grant
Officials at Stanford University reject-
ed a $500 scholarship because the
money would only be available to a
male medical student who publicly ad-
mitted he was gay.
Florida psychiatrist Robert Ragland
offered Stanford the scholarship to en-
courage open discussion of
homosexuality.
But Stanford's administrators said
they would be unable to verify whether
or not a student was a homosexual. The
administrators said 'asking a student
for that kind of information would be "There will be all kinds of weird
viorltatkindhisisoriacyn.w dbe features and cult films - things that
violating his rights to privacy, are of interest to a college audience.
Ragland said the scholarship would We'll have extremely old episodes of
not require proof that the student was a te'Threetregeywoldteodegnaf
homosexual, but he would trust that a the Three Stooges with the original
student who applied for the grant was a cast," said Scott Lewanowicz, a Cam-
homosexual, pus Video Network exectuive producer.
- The Stanford Daily The network is MSU's first attempt at
entertainment programming to come
MSU network airs out of MSU. It can be watched in
classrooms, dormitories, and Lansing
Michigan State University's student-run cable networks.m
cable television network aired for the --ThenStateNews
first time last Saturday.-
The Campus Video Network, funded Dartmouth Review sued
by MSU's student government, features A professor at Dartmouth College has
music videos, cult films, public affairs filed a $600,000 lawsuit against the
spots, and shows produced by campus student newspaper charging that an ar-
groups. ticle printed criticizing his teaching
style was "malicious and defamatory."
The article in The Dartmouth
Review, said Chairman of the Music
Department William Cole, who is black,
diluted grading standards for black
students.
Although the newspaper is indepen-
dent from the school, Dartmouth ad-
ministrators threatened to take the
"Dartmouth" name out of the paper's
banner.
- The Chronicle of Higher Education
"Colleges" is a weekly Column
featuring newsworthy items
from other college campuses.
It will appear every Thursday.
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