A history of occupying Pomona College’s Alexander Hall

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A history of occupying Pomona College’s Alexander Hall

By December of 1987, as a winter chill began to settle over Claremont, global criticisms of South African apartheid reached a fever pitch. In 1979, students at the Claremont Colleges were made aware of the school’s investments in South Africa, particularly Pomona College Vice Presid ent Fred Moony’s personal investments in apartheid holdings. Student organizing coalesced around the issue and by 1984, divestment had emerged as the international p…