European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 10, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Prigo 10 columns the stars and stripes tuesday. June 10, 1986 William Buckley some College students practising selective morality All know i Kir a music militant in i. He it Lujic Werkl Icse a i s is Divusz mail sell lit Mcki m inc College portfolio in my Oiin Plin a v Obj a Urr doing til is in Iii ill afrum to hold on la in. Lac mucks i k Jeri i m in Quiesce in Domy Commerce Wilh a country a disc Iii Numic pm Lilia i Iru .ibmiim.ibk. The my a Coli Jii Johnv fur Divi Simoum Are saying. In Driml. Dial inc do nut wish Iti Lucli Pili. It the he in Critari. The pull Artri i nut i inn Ilicin by in be suit to in the civil i Ibi Liticia of blocks in of Sinh Altti ire a Jim Crow was indefensible in the United slates when vie in Cicai to unlit about 20 years ago. Finl Ilic Surv Tiu system of the uni cd sidles i Lienju Rohim for pit sputum fun Tunsil i us Iii did on Mon Dij a Lio Iii a table we pro Gnu acc in world. Thai pm Nerakis modified we re Here in the be slightly str r prom Una in dishonourable everywhere in me world Here we can a late Hui Tuil running a risk a ourselves. There inc vast re i in in the a tired inc capital of which i Movw. Where they have Cyl to i Sliver any of inc Bill of right. Which hic enjoyed for Aboul 2fm years Bui ii is Lviv Ilner i in criticise Johannes Burg. Which Cun do nothing at Al to hurl the at t us Umbria University in new York quilt Ino Lher in agitate again a Moscow a hich could drop Little Nom bombs on l he Campus of Columbia univ risky if in Chrusc Aee Ardingly. High moral dudgeon is exercised Wajih some i Crel on but along comes a report from inc investor responsibility research Cen Ler. Which a is track of car purple policies in America and Lenain questions slowly tit rec am of them lucidly discussed by Matthew a Wald in inc new York times. In n sense these auctions have to do with retaliation in another form people Don t like to be thought of As cd Mura than Wihr pm up i because they arrive in different eur delusions about How o do i with certain pub temp thus for in stance the Johnson &. Johnson co which makes things like band aids and has a factory in South Africa thai makes things like band aids. Does t like to be told by William Safire Ilu dents Thill people who work at Johnson & Johnson arc moral idiots. Thai in erred is what has been said of them by students at Rutgers who clamoured for and got divestment of Johnson & Johnson Stock. A a has been grand about it and recently pledged $2 million to rugers which sits adjacent loj a Headquarters but we walk now into a residual subtlety if the students at Rutgers so disdain a Jas to refute to own any of its Stock docs it not follow that they should feel a correlative reluctance to accept Money earned by a a the reasoning is surely As obvious is this a a docs business in South Africa. Doing business in South Africa is evil. Therefore any earnings made by companies that do business in South Africa arc tainted. We decline to use tainted Money. George Sci Rcck of general motors put in Iju Ilc bluntly if students on the one hand Are advocating divestment of pm Slock and on the other hand Are perfectly titling to accept financial support that might be forthcoming they Are certainly engaging in a sort of selective morality. It does t indicate mucin depth of and the problem ii not quantitatively trivial. Last year for the first Lime corporate gifts to colleges and universities exceeded private gifts. At Cornell 41 percent
