Enforcing the International Sports Boycott of South Africa at Oregon State University; News Clippings from the Struggle, 1980-1982
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Enforcing the International Sports Boycott of South Africa At Oregon State University; News Clippings from the Struggle, 1980-1982 I U St I - - Compiled by Ed Ferguson History Department (1979-1991) Oregon State University -- -r Corvallis, Oregon - r- 4 4 I I ii Introd uction ii This is a booklet of news clippings and other pertinent material from the struggle to enforce the international sports boycott of South Africa at Oregon State University from 1980 through 1982. The struggle took place because of campus sporting ties with apartheid South Africa that violated the international ban on sports with that country ruled by a white-minority regime. Hence, it involved educating students, the local community and others throughout the state about the South African system of racial domination and oppression called "apartheid." Oregon press items in this booklet are primarily from the campus Daily Barometer and the local Gazette-Times. There is also material from other newspapers in the state: the Oregonian, the (Salem) Statesman- Journal, the (Eugene) Register-Guard, the Portland Observer, the (Roseburg) News-Review, the Redmond Spokesman, the (Prineville) Central Oregonian and the Blue Mountain Eagle published in John Day. The African Students' Association led the campus movement which IJreceived the strong support of Sally Duhaime of the Daily Barometer whose writings were of the highest quality. The campaign brought plays and prominent anti-apartheid speakers to campus, as well, so ' these activities will be found in these news clippings. This booklet is a component of "The Oregon Anti-Apartheid Files", a much larger collection of material from the statewide anti-apartheid movement. Those files are deposited at the African Activist Archive Project at Michigan State University. A copy of the Introduction and Table of Contents for "The Oregon Anti-Apartheid Files" can be found at the end of this booklet. 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