Letters to the Administration

University of Michigan students demonstrate in favor of divestment during a Board of Regents meeting, April 19, 1979.
Throughout the divestment campaign, students, faculty, other members of the Ann Arbor community, and people from around the country sent in letters to the administration of the University of Michigan. Some of these letters are displayed below.

Anti-apartheid organizations on campus passed out pre-written letters for students to sign and address to members of the administration.

A letter to Regent Nederlander from Benjamin Clark, who claims he is "in the minority on the South African issue"because he is voicing his opinion, unlike many other students on campus.

The Committee on Corporate Responsibility, a religious organization concerned with U.S. economic policy, urges divestment.

A UM student says it is impossible to single out one country as the "worst or most oppressive" and that UM should not divest "but continue with its present policies toward South Africa."

A Rhodesian UM Dearborn professor says the Regents March 16 resolution will make UM "an accomplice in the horrible political system of apartheid."