By: David Fonfa

David Fonfa
Sun, 07 Jun 2020 23:17:27 +0000

Hi, what about our divestment from South Africa that many of us organized and participated in? During the 1980s. Our last protest as I remember it, we students shut down the Board of Trustees Meetings with the help of CWA picketers who at the time were also angry with their contract and in full support of our divestment movement, we supported them in turn and wore their hats and shirts at the last protest. I say last, because the BOT of OSU began to agree with us that they should more fully divest and kept its promise to us and OSU became one of the leading universities in terms of the fullness of its divestment compared to other universities. This history was probably swept away because the activists in the school were far outnumbered by Reagan-Bush supporters who were ok with Apartheid.