The Nation - News from March 30, 1986
About 25 Vanderbilt University students protesting the school’s $50-million investment in companies that do business in South Africa cheered as the first nail was driven in a shanty built on university property. University officials approved the 12-by-10-foot shanty but said they were concerned that other students might try to pull down the structure of rusty corrugated metal, cardboard and 2-by-4s. A similar shantytown at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., was damaged when students attacked it with sledgehammers.
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