{"id":1666,"date":"1986-02-22T01:30:52","date_gmt":"1986-02-22T01:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/?p=1666"},"modified":"2018-10-31T13:55:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T17:55:37","slug":"trustee-press-conference-on-new-divestment-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/1986\/02\/22\/trustee-press-conference-on-new-divestment-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Trustee press conference on new divestment policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">February 22, 1986<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trustee press conference on new divestment policy<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After much discussion among themselves and pressure from different members of the Smith community, the Smith College trustees held a press conference in Wright Hall to announce their plans for divestment in South Africa. The policy they put forth disappointed many students with its long timeline and cautious nature. Students rallied outside Wright Hall before the press conference began to push for total divestment within two years, a proposal that had been made by the Smith Senate\u2019s Ethical Investment Committee. However, under the trustee\u2019s new policy, Smith would only initially divest from two companies, and would divest from the rest in \u201can orderly fashion,\u201d not a specific period of time. Out of the $22,306,791 in investments the College had in South Africa, these two companies would only account for $1,700,000. Members of the Ethical Investment Committee made comments and announced a sit-in in College Hall in protest.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A description of the press conference and the policy can be found here (<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1986.02.24.-Trustees-announce-divestment-plan_-Students-express-disappointment-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\/1986.02.24.-Trustees-announce-divestment-plan_-Students-express-disappointment-3-e1538922766138.jpg\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">3<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">). \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Letters to the editor written in response to the policy can be found<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1986.02.24.-Opinion-Page-Student-dissatisfied-with-board%E2%80%99s-decision-asks-trustees-to-reconsider-5.jpg\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1986.02.24.-Opinion-Page-Viewpoint_-A-cop-out-4-e1538922742315.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 31, 2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 22, 1986 Trustee press conference on new divestment policy After much discussion among themselves [&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":[67,26,84,47],"class_list":["post-1666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1980s","tag-67","tag-apartheid-in-south-africa","tag-institutional-action","tag-student-protests","entry","grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666","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=1666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2395,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions\/2395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}