{"id":1664,"date":"1986-02-20T01:25:32","date_gmt":"1986-02-20T01:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/?p=1664"},"modified":"2018-10-28T15:47:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T15:47:08","slug":"college-hall-sit-in-to-show-support-for-divestment-from-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/1986\/02\/20\/college-hall-sit-in-to-show-support-for-divestment-from-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"College Hall sit-in to show support for divestment from South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">February 20, 1986<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">College Hall sit-in to show support for divestment from South Africa<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Ethical Investment Committee and Divestment Committee organized a four-hour sit-in at College Hall the day before the Smith College trustees met to talk about divestment. About 300 students participated, as did several faculty members. Those gathered sang and chanted in protest of Smith\u2019s shares in South Africa. However, they complied with College rules of assembly and at one point President Dunn even invited protesters into her office to answer questions for forty-five minutes.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The full Sophian article on the sit-in can be found<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1986.02.24.-Sit-in-elicits-exchange-of-opinions-1.jpg\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>[Last updated on October 28, 2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 20, 1986 College Hall sit-in to show support for divestment from South Africa The [&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":[67,26,47],"class_list":["post-1664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1980s","tag-67","tag-apartheid-in-south-africa","tag-student-protests","entry","grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664","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=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2287,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions\/2287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}