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: Praise for Both Sides
In a statement preceding his order, Judge Sherman praised both sides for showing ''good faith'' but expressed regret at the inability to reach a negotiated solution. He also urged ''that the parties continue their negotiations peacefully.'' Later in the evening, the Union Theological Seminary announced that its board of directors had voted to sell its holdings in American companies with ''major, direct involvement in South Africa.'' The decision to sell an undisclosed portion of its $33 million endowment followed a yearlong study by a special committee of board members. During the negotiations in the Columbia demonstration, the students had moved away from their original demand of complete divestment within three years and amnesty for all demonstrators, instead recommending the creation of a special committee to examine the school's investment policy regarding South Africa. But the demonstration was called off with no guarantees of any change in Columbia policy. Randolph Scott-McLaughlin, an attorney for the student protesters, said his clients felt ''betrayed'' by the university's unwillingness to ''enter into dialogue'' and to make compromises of its own in response to the students' concessions. ''We didn't realize what kind of intransigence we were facing from the university,'' Anthony Glover, a member of the steering committee, told tearful demonstrators in recommending that the demonstration come to an end. '' What's clear is that they can no longer continue to justify investments in South Africa after what's been done out here.'' 'Celebration Rally' Set
Nevertheless, student leaders argued that they had won a moral victory and have scheduled a farewell ''celebration rally'' for Thursday, three weeks after their civil disobedience began.