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 [M.I.T. divestment fund] Original Airdate: 10/15/1986 Length: 00:02:06 Item Type: newstape - edited story master Go to full description for this item. Description : Abstract Meg Vaillancourt reports on the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Endowment for Divestiture, created by MIT faculty and alumni who oppose the university's continued investment in South Africa. Vaillancourt's report includes footage from a press conference with Mel King (MIT Professor and community activist), Phil Katz (MIT), and John Correia (MIT). Vaillancourt reports that the Endowment for Divestiture will be turned over to the MIT general fund when the university has divested completely from South Africa. Vaillancourt notes that the university has partially divested from South Africa. Vaillancourt's report includes footage of John Parsons (Trustee for the Endowment for Divestment) saying that the alternative endowment will be soundly invested in companies not doing business in South Africa. Vaillancourt's report also features footage of workers and laborers in South Africa. Contributor : Reporter Meg Vaillancourt
Subject : Keywords Apartheid - Protests Universities and colleges Subject : Personal Names Correia, John Katz, Phil King, Mel Parsons, John Vaillancourt, Meg Subject : Corporate Names (Organization names) MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Subject : Geographic Locations Cambridge (Mass.) South Africa Type : Genre News - Television |
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