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  • Divestment campaign too simplistic to succeed

    10/16/2002 9:54:21 AM PDT · by NorCoGOP · 4 replies · 303+ views
    The Battalion (Texas A&M U.) ^ | 10/15/02 | Collins Ezeanyim
    COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- In the early 1980s, college students helped to eliminate the apartheid regime from South Africa through a divestment campaign, according to Time and Newsweek. This is a movement by students to pressure their universities to review their investment portfolios and eliminate stocks of companies they believe are aiding human injustices. The anti-apartheid divestment movement is a shining example of how focused and passionate college students can organize and make a difference in the world. Now a new divestment movement is sweeping campuses from coast to coast. According to Time, the campaign involves students' efforts to pressure...