The Student Coalition Against Apartheid was a student anti-apartheid group at Vassar College that campaigned to get the school to divest from companies doing business in South Africa. In February 1986 the Student Coalition Against Apartheid staged a sit-in in President Smith's office, claiming that Vassar, instead of divesting, had increased...
The Student Coalition Against Apartheid was a student anti-apartheid group at Vassar College that campaigned to get the school to divest from companies doing business in South Africa. In February 1986 the Student Coalition Against Apartheid staged a sit-in in President Smith's office, claiming that Vassar, instead of divesting, had increased the amount of stock it held in apartheid-supportive companies. At about the same time the Vassar College trustees agreed to immediately divest of companies not achieving high ratings under the Sullivan Code and further divestment would occur of the remaining stocks (the most strategic investors in South Africa) in three years in the absence of "significant change." At some point the name may have been changed to Student Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism (SCAAR). (Source: Eric Bove, a former member of Students Against Apartheid; "Apartheid Foes Are Still Force Here" by Anne Ritterspach, The Miscellany News, September 20, 1985; "Is It Vassar's Time To Divest?", UNSCREWED, October 1985; Student Anti-Apartheid Newsletter, March 1986 and April 1986 issues, The Africa Fund available on this website; and
A Documentary Chronicle of Vassar College by the Vassar Historian accessed October 15, 2016)
