Copy of a letter to Mr. Malcolm Dade, Chairperson, Board of Trustees, Michigan State University. The letter says it has been brought to the attention of the University community and the public at large through the statement of Vice-President Joseph Dickinson (Lansing State Journal, May 23, 1985) that the MSU Foundation has not yet complied with the 1978 decision of the MSU Board of Trustees and the 1980 State of Michigan Educational Divestiture Act to have no part in the support of apartheid and to divest its financial portfolio of holdings in corporations profiting on South Africa's oppression. The letter says the Southern Africa Liberation Committee (SALC) and many MSU faculty have been...
Copy of a letter to Mr. Malcolm Dade, Chairperson, Board of Trustees, Michigan State University. The letter says it has been brought to the attention of the University community and the public at large through the statement of Vice-President Joseph Dickinson (Lansing State Journal, May 23, 1985) that the MSU Foundation has not yet complied with the 1978 decision of the MSU Board of Trustees and the 1980 State of Michigan Educational Divestiture Act to have no part in the support of apartheid and to divest its financial portfolio of holdings in corporations profiting on South Africa's oppression. The letter says the Southern Africa Liberation Committee (SALC) and many MSU faculty have been proud to indicate to other universities, members of the public, and representatives from Africa that ours was the first major public university to divest from South African holdings; we would expect that the Trustees would take immediate action to bring the Foundation into compliance with the Trustees 1978 and State 1980 decisions; and we find no reason for hesitation - either legal, financial, or moral, now that even the U.S. Congress is acting in harmony with MSU in voting sanctions of South Africa and of commerce there.
