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: The leaders of a three-week-old student demonstration against Columbia University's investment policy on South Africa said yesterday that their blockade of a campus building would end Thursday. ''We are going to continue the movement for divestment, but the demonstration will be over on Thursday,'' said Laird Townsend, one of 10 members of a student steering committee that has directed the protest. '' It's time to move on to new tactics.'' The decision was announced minutes before a judge issued a preliminary injunction ordering the demonstrators to allow access to Hamilton Hall, the classroom and administrative building they have been barricading in defiance of previous court orders. Despite the demonstration, another entrance to the building remained open and classes continued to be held. The Order Takes Effect
Acting Justice Burton S. Sherman of State Supreme Court in Manhattan ordered the demonstrators to remove all chains and padlocks from the front doors of Hamilton Hall and to open a pathway for students and faculty members to enter and leave the building and others near it. But Judge Sherman also designated an area on the steps of Hamilton Hall and in the adjoining quadrangle in which he said the demonstrators would be free to continue their protest ''peacefully.'' The court order took effect at about 5:30 P.M. yesterday, when it was read to the demonstrators. Asked if Columbia was demanding immediate compliance, Floyd Abrams, a lawyer for the university, said: '' We hope and expect the students will abide by the court order.