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Yale's New President Faces Apartheid Protest
About 200 demonstrators protested Yale University's 400 investment in South Africa during the inauguration of Benno C. Schmidt Jr. Dozens of police guarded Cross Campus as three people were arrested. Protesters wore masks and carried miniature coffins while shouting anti apartheid slogans at Woolsey Hall.
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