University Daily Kansan, April 4, 1985
NATION AND WORLD
Page 12
Sit-in calls for divestment
By United Press International
AMHERST, Mass. — Students at the University of Massachusetts in the third day occupying an administrators office to protest a new $261 fee yesterday added the university's ties to South Africa to its list of complaints.
plains. The students have refused to leave Vice Chancellor Dennis Madson's office in the Whitmore Administration building since Monday, when they rallied against a new fee and plans to take control of two buildings from students.
Yesterday, they called on the university to divest its holdings in
South Africa, which practices apartheid, a policy of racial segregation.
with a policy of.
The students held a small noon
rally to generate support and said
they would remain in the building
until at least one of their demands
was met.
Campus administrators have allowed the students to remain in the building as long as they did not disrupt any other activities. No one has been arrested.
"SPIRITS ARE REALLY high and we're willing to stay as long as it takes," said Matthew Shakespeare, 21. Brookline, Mass., junior.
A group of students traveled to Boston, where the board of trustees were to vote on the proposed fee. The
divestment issue was not on the agenda.
agenda.
John Hayes, 22, Windsor, Conn., graduate student, said the students had decided to use their sit-in to bring attention to the divestment issue.
"We feel it is immoral and hypocritical for a institution dedicated to intellectual pursuits and freedom to be investing in South Africa." Hayes said.
Africa," Anne Hopkins Stover, a spokesman for the university, said the university divested itself of holdings in South Africa in 1977. But Hayes said the university still had $177,000 worth of holdings in several companies doing business in South Africa.
1 dies in clash in Lebanon
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Rival militia clashed for the sixth straight day yesterday in the port of Beirut, killing at least one person, and Israeli troops detained about 300 men in a search for suspected guerrillas in a Muslim market town.
The sweep through the Shiite Muslim village of Chebiabyeh came as Israeli forces freed 752 prisoners from the Anas detention camp in southern Lebanon. They took another 1,200 Anar inmates to a prison in Israel.
which the State Department called a violation of international law.
In Sidon, an ancient port 24 miles south of Beirut, pro-Iraeli Christian gunners battled with Muslim militiamen, backed by the Palestinians, in another attack that began March 18. Beirut radio said. The fighting tapered off late last month but has continued steadily since March 29.
SECURITY SOURCES SAID one person was killed and 14 were wounded in the fighting, which intensified around midnight local time. At least 64 people have been killed since the fighting began last month.
"Many people are spending the night in shelters," Beirut radio quoted a police official as saying. The radio said several mortar rounds slammed into the center of the Sunni Muslim city, setting about a dozen houses on fire.
Sniper raked the city with gunfire as mortar and artillery rounds crashed into Sidon's eastern suburbs, many of them aimed at the Palestinian refugee camps of Ain Helwe and Miyeh-Miyeh.
The fighting began after a March 12 revolt by the Lebanese Forces, the mainstream Christian militia that gets military support from Israel.
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