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: 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. ''We've come a long way from April 4,'' Mr. Townsend said. '' We gained 15 days of community and national support which exerted a great deal of pressure on the university and put the spotlight on the trustees. We didn't lose anything; we gained a great deal of momentum.'' In an action announced at the same time as his preliminary injunction, Judge Sherman postponed until June 10 any further action on contempt summonses issued to 31 Columbia students after they ignored a temporary restraining order forbidding them from blocking university buildings and activities.