{"id":1674,"date":"1986-04-05T01:59:50","date_gmt":"1986-04-05T01:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/?p=1674"},"modified":"2018-10-31T13:56:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T17:56:23","slug":"april-5-1986-students-rally-new-committee-meets-as-the-ad-hoc-committee-of-eight-trustees-five-students-and-three-faculty-members-met-to-discuss-divestment-approximately-20-students-rallied-on-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/1986\/04\/05\/april-5-1986-students-rally-new-committee-meets-as-the-ad-hoc-committee-of-eight-trustees-five-students-and-three-faculty-members-met-to-discuss-divestment-approximately-20-students-rallied-on-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Students rally, new committee meets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">April 5, 1986<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students rally, new committee meets<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> As the ad-hoc committee of eight trustees, five students, and three faculty members met to discuss divestment, approximately 20 students rallied on Seelye lawn to protest apartheid and show support for divestment. Although the protest turnout was smaller than expected and the meeting itself did not result in any concrete plan of action, one of the committee students noted that the protesters were \u201cloud enough to make an impression\u201d and plans were set for further committee meetings.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The full Sophian article on the meeting and rally can be found<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1986.04.07.-Students%E2%80%99-rally-greets-trustees-1-e1538922972444.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>April 5, 1986 Students rally, new committee meets As the ad-hoc committee of eight trustees, [&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-1674","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\/1674","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=1674"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2396,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions\/2396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}