Word: boycotts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...those who haven’t been following this, Senior Gift Plus is an organization that has been encouraging students to boycott the regular Senior Gift. They hope to pressure the folks who manage Harvard’s endowment into selling Harvard’s stock in PetroChina, an oil company whose parent is doing business with the Sudanese government. They want to do this by having seniors give to an alternative fund. If Harvard divests from PetroChina, the alternative fund goes to the same place the Senior Gift money goes. If Harvard hasn’t divested by October...
...voicing a common complaint, claims that Senior Gift Plus shows any agenda can serve as an excuse to “hijack” Senior Gift. The site suggests a number of causes that students could use for boycotting the Gift. The first suggestion is that students justify their boycott based on a desire to see Harvard divest from U.S. Government T-Bills, and the others are similarly absurd. The site’s creators include an explanation of the serious point they are trying to make. They want, according to the site, to “point out that...
...Harvard students feel strongly enough to organize a boycott of a $10 gift (which I believe is a noble and worthwhile display of political activism), why are we so quick to keep paying the Corporation $40,000 per year? It seems to me that if we really wanted to make a statement, we would boycott Harvard entirely, not just the class gift. That’s right: don’t go to class, barricade administrative buildings, disrupt the operations of the University, and sure as hell don’t sign away any more of your money...
...families with annual incomes under $40,000 was made possible by the Harvard College Fund and, more importantly, by the practice of giving back to Harvard post-graduation—a practice which is engendered by the tradition of the Senior Gift. Mahan and Terry’s proposed boycott would hold hostage much of the potential impetus for such desirable changes in the future. Seniors should not withhold donations to financial aid initiatives to achieve a desirable change in Harvard’s investment policies. There are other, less detrimental ways to demand divestment from Sudan...
...have Harvard divest from Sudan, there are much more forceful, symbolic means of demanding that change. In the 1970s and 1980s, Harvard students campaigned for the University’s divestment from apartheid South Africa with more gusto than that involved in Mahan and Terry’s proposed boycott. On April 23, 1978, more than 1,000 people gathered outside Pusey Library to demand divestment during a closed-door meeting of the Harvard Corporation during which stock policy for the year was to be determined. During the same period, students took up a ‘round-the-clock...