The University of Cincinnati participates in the controversial industry of exploiting mass incarceration for profit. Therefore, we would like our school to withdraw its participation. Doubtful of divestment tactics? Refer to the late 1970s, when the University of California, Michigan State University, Columbia, Stanford University, and other universities helped push for an end to apartheid by divesting from South Africa and companies associated with it. This then lead to companies and corporations divesting as well. Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu have pointed to the University of California’s withdrawal of $3 billion from South Africa, and the University movement in general, as a catalyst for ending the Apartheid regime (businessinsider.com).