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"I feel frustrated," Munson said. "This is still an important issue."
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Laird Okie, a 1982 KU graduate and a former committee member, said, "For a long time, people were willing to get arrested. Then suddenly it was a question of where we go from here."
Overt student activism on divestment went out with a whisper in 1986, when the Kansas University Endowment Association announced a policy change, Highberger said.
The Sullivan principles are a set of standards generally used to guide investment in South Africa. They require that the companies receiving the investment agree to integrate their employees, ensure fair and equal employment practices and increase the number of non-white personnel in supervisory positions.
In April, the Endowment Association announced a policy of selective divestment: divesting only from companies that did not follow the Sullivan principles.
These requirements previously were not made of South African companies that sought investment, said Todd Seymour, the Endowment Association's president.
That, Munson said, was only token change, because the Endowment Association still refused to totally divest, saying that would be illegal.
But the change was accepted as the best the committee could hope for in the short term, and the group turned to other forms of activism, Munson said.
"The announcement of partial
dvestment was an obvious result of
the company's financial crisis."
But although student activism is less visible now, it is still alive, Highberger said.
"For all intents, it's not dead. It's just been dormant for a while. I don't know what it will take to rouse it from its sleep," he said.
Norman Forer, associate professor of social welfare, said activism merely had shifted from persuading the University to divest to getting state and federal representatives to press for reform in South Africa.
"Students perceive that the University of Kansas has fallen so far behind other universities in this regard," Forer said. "They see the issue being raised by gubernatorial candidates, and they see actions been taken by state institutions. And they feel that the University is incapable of dealing with the issue."
and their activity often have a lot to do with the media attention they get, said Jack Weller, assistant professor of sociology.
"I'm not even willing to agree that the anti-apartheid movement has declined, because activities may be reported, but we are not being reported," Weller said.
Now, student activities relating to South Africa are not dramatic. They are focusing on trying to provide South African blacks with material assistance and creating awareness of problems there, Munson said.
Activism that receives a lot of media attention is something that's dramatic. Weller said.
On Campus
Perceptions of protest movements
A Brown Bag Lunch and a slide presentation on Machu Picchu, Peru, is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. today at 109 Lippincott Hall.
A Rice and Bean Dinner, sponsored by Latin American Solidarity, is scheduled for 6 p.m. today at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Jack Bremer, director of Ecumenical Christian Ministries, will speak on "Nicaragua: Life in the War Zone."
- "Physical-Geographical Aspects of Nicaragua Land Use," a geography department lecture, is scheduled for 4 a.m. today at 412 Jindley Hall.
A student recital with the Student Woodwind Quintet is scheduled for 8 p.m. today in Swarthout Recital Hall at Murphy Hall.
A tax workshop is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. in the Northeast Conference Room at the Burge Union.
On the Record
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student's 1984 Mitsubishi valued at $200 was broken out with a rock sometime Monday while the car was parked in the 2900 block of West 15th Street, Lawrence police said. The student reported the damage Tuesday.
- Five personal checks and a brown vinyl tape case containing 25 cassette tapes, valued at $92, were taken sometime between 9:15 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Tuesday from a student's unlocked vehicle parked in the 600 block of Kasold Drive, Lawrence police said.
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