{"id":1570,"date":"1985-10-08T17:01:19","date_gmt":"1985-10-08T17:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2018-10-31T13:51:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T17:51:14","slug":"committee-holds-south-africa-awareness-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/1985\/10\/08\/committee-holds-south-africa-awareness-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Committee holds South Africa Awareness Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">October 8, 1985<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Committee holds South Africa Awareness Forum<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Ethical Investment Committee (EIC) held a forum to raise the general student body\u2019s awareness of issues in South Africa. This was part of an overall effort by the EIC to address the millions of dollars Smith College had invested in South African and South-African-related companies. There were three speakers: Ken Carsten, executive director of the International Defense and Aid Fund, Jabu Maphalala, a black sophomore at Amherst from South Africa, and Peter DeViliers, a white associate professor at Smith College from South Africa.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The full Sophian article on the forum can be found here (<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1985.10.10.-Investment-Committee-to-meet-with-Trustees-1.jpg\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1985.10.10.-Investment-Committee-to-meet-with-Trustees-3-e1538431124119.jpg\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">3<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">).<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>[Last updated on October 31, 2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 8, 1985 Committee holds South Africa Awareness Forum The Ethical Investment Committee (EIC) held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[63,26,116],"class_list":["post-1570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1980s","tag-63","tag-apartheid-in-south-africa","tag-ethical-investment-committee-eic","entry","grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2392,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions\/2392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}