 Within these three words of Martin Luther—'Here I stand'—is compressed the whole of our historical endeavor..."

In the 1980s the most organized campus movement was against investments in companies doing business in South Africa.By February 1987, student political action had brought Ohio Wesleyan to pledge to fully divest any holdings connected to South Africa.The OWU Committee on Divestment was organized in 1988 and funded many activities related to its cause.