Title: COLUMBIA STUDENTS TO END ANTI-APARTHEID PROTEST - The New York Times
Headings: COLUMBIA STUDENTS TO END ANTI-APARTHEID PROTEST
COLUMBIA STUDENTS TO END ANTI-APARTHEID PROTEST
By Larry Rohter
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Content: Other Protests Going On
By The Associated Press
Students pitched tents at Syracuse University yesterday to begin a protest of South Africa's apartheid, while sit- ins continued at Rutgers and Princeton in New Jersey, at Cornell in New York, and at the University of California at Berkeley and at Santa Cruz. The about 100 students demonstrating at Syracuse said they would camp out before the Administration Building for a week, but they did not hinder access to the building. A university spokesman, Daniel Forbush, said Syracuse has had a policy opposing apartheid since the late 1970's, and had given up holdings in five corporations that violated the policy. At Cornell, security officers carried protesting students - 217 of them - from the administration building for the third straight school day. At the San Francisco Federal Building, several dozen people marched and picketed in an anti-apartheid protest, and 20 arrests were reported. Advertisement
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