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...preventing Holy Cross from getting closer than four goals the rest of the game. The contest was played as scheduled, despite below-freezing temperatures for much of the afternoon. Harvard continues its season in the frosty New England climate with a 3 p.m. clash on Saturday against UMass in Amherst...
Brown’s announcement follows similar moves made by Stanford, Amherst, Dartmouth, and, most recently, Yale, which announced Feb. 11 that it was divesting its shares in seven oil companies that do business in Sudan...
...Sudan, and we, the same students who celebrated Harvard’s divestment in front of Loeb House last spring, are calling on our University to reclaim its leadership in the movement for ethical investment,” the statement stated. Yale joined colleges and universities such as Stanford, Amherst, and Dartmouth in divesting from firms supporting the Sudanese government, including Sinopec, last week. “No matter what ethical guidelines you want to create, these kinds of stocks have to be omitted,” Collins said at the organizational meeting yesterday. He said that the question...
...which is involved in Sudan in the same way as PetroChina, to remain in Harvard’s portfolio—since the University has taken a moral stance against genocide in Sudan, it behooves them to be consistent. Other schools that divested from PetroChina, like Yale, Stanford, and Amherst, recognized the similarities and also divested from Sinopec...
...time-honored principles that Yale observes as an ethical institutional investor have guided us to take this strong action,” Yale President Richard C. Levin said in a statement.Yale’s announcement follows similar moves last year by colleges and universities such as Stanford, Amherst, and Dartmouth. Harvard announced this past April that it would divest from PetroChina, a subsidiary of the Chinese National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), after pressure from students and some faculty members. But Harvard continues to hold a stake in a second Beijing-based oil company, Sinopec, which also does business in Sudan.PetroChina...