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We wouldn't think so because it's cited all the time, but it is reasonable and advocates of divestment can respect its broad principles and respectfully continue to advocate divestment. In the Tufts University Board of Trustees policy on South African investments, the Uniform Management of Institutional Funds Act adopted by Massachusetts in 1976 is cited as follows. In the administration of the powers to long and short term needs of the institution and carrying out its education, most scenario, purposes, its present and anticipated financial requirements, expected total return on its investments, price level trends, and general economic conditions, its abilities upon them. The state of Massachusetts itself has passed legislation in January of 1982 requiring public pension fund divestment.

Despite a $300,000 lobbying at the state of Massachusetts will find the Board of Trustees of Tufts College in contempt of the laws of the Commonwealth, while the Commonwealth itself divested of nearly $120 million in stocks and bonds, nearly 20 times the amount Tufts is concerned with. Now no fewer than 30 cities, seven states, and more than a dozen, and American corporations themselves, notably the Bank of Boston, Chase Manhattan Bank, CityCorp, and Polaroid have a plan to cease any future business there. Over and Sullivan, peace of change is far too slow. The pace of change is far too slow. It can't go on in it. The Tufts community calls on the Board of Trustees of this university to accept their fiduciary responsibilities and the responsibilities of leaders of this university.

I'd like to know if you have any of the participants in the news conference there, have an opportunity to engage in any one-on-one dialogue with the Tufts community to have an opportunity to engage members of the trustees, and to hold on dialogue with the discussion. I think 30th of their bounce, we have a representative to the trustee administration in finance, but I made a presentation to that committee, and that presentation you were involved to the extent that the trustees have made a commitment in a decision to approve the We have a quick meeting.

We just need a quick meeting before we do this, alright? We have a quick meeting. That would be a statement. Someone on the right. Audrey is the man on here. Well, I mean, what I want to say, right? I want to say this. I don't think that the press conference gave the press evidence for the atmosphere. The atmosphere was a pleasure when we had a return of people and it's totally been more militant and ratified because of the health and everything that's been going on. So as far as the fact of this, we're just something that didn't originate last semester. This is something that has definitely gone on. And legal channels have been attempted for close to eight years. That's why at the press conference, I think that's bogus. I think November 9th tried to go through all the legal channels and if they still say no. And we've even attempted legal channels at points

and been completely shut up. And look, there's our proof of it. There's the police officer which has been circling this all times. They've taken down our crosses over and over again. There have been undercover cops at our meetings. I thought we had the freedom to meet without cops. I mean, it's been going on and on. And if the trustees don't divest at this time, it proves there's no such thing as communication, no such thing as legal channels. And there's definitely going to be radical action taking place on this university. The atmosphere is definitely right for it now. The student body is totally in favor of large radical action. And we are going to do something if they don't divest. Well, we're building to any towns. We could have another city and we could have a sit out. We will go and protest at the trustees' homes. We know their addresses. We know their names. 27 of them live in the Boston area. We will be picketing outside their doors. We will be talking to them directly. Jean Mayer has not been a liaison for the students to talk to the trustees at all.

He has not helped us. He has lied to us. He has ignored our calls since 1978 for divestment. We symbolically feel that we can just dismiss them as our university president. We're going to go directly to the trustees. If Jean Mayer has no say on the investment policies of the school, we would go directly above his head to the trustees and protest them directly. From Jean Mayer, half the time doesn't know what the issue is. Last year. You walked into our sit-in. He came in and said, I know what this is all about at Central America again. The fact that the men is no communication. No, it's above half the faculty putting to the statement. But anyway, not all of the faculty. That's a little bit misleading because that is a petition that there's various limitations of petitions. The faculty and the arts and sciences voted for and the representative faculty body has voted not once but twice for complete divestment. That is the fact that trustees, over and over, they totally cover up. The faculty has been more than cooperative with us. They were here last night. The petition has limitations.

So we don't have a fully representative body. But we've been blocked in having votes there, too. We're not even sure if the trustees, by the way, will vote. We are not. We are blocked from the meeting. We've been blocked from communication. They called an executive meeting so that we couldn't even have our legal. We're not even sure they're going to vote. If we are lucky enough to have that sort of communication and they do not vote, then it'll just be proof. The November 9th committee's credibility as a legal sort of organization will obviously be proven to be false. And that's... Think of it in these terms. Rather than us escalating the problem, it's them refusing to resolve the problem. They are the ones who default if they vote against a vestment. If they're the ones who continue to extend the problem, continue to make this university terribly critical. We aren't supposed to stand for it. This is supposed to be light on the hill where students can be involved. And if they hold private meetings behind our backs, if they schedule meetings for this summer, and the students and the faculty can't participate, what are we supposed to do?

Are we supposed to sit here and take it? What do you think is not strongly about? Is that just the issue of a party that we feel so strongly about? Which, of course, we... I mean, a party is everyone in this country that is abhorrent. But our university plays an active role in a party. Our university plays an active role on racism on this campus, too. And we're trying to fight racism in Boston. We're trying to fight racism. It's also trying to fight racism in South Africa. Our university is helping to keep the apartheid regime in place. We feel as students we should have some input into our university decisions. And we are going to fight until our decision as the tough community is heard. All right, man.