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...without saying that withdrawing investments from companies which provide money to fund a government’s campaign of mass extermination is an anemic response to genocide, even more so if it’s the only response. The moment Harvard divested from PetroChina and Sinopec was the campaign??s apotheosis, but it really should have been only the beginning...
...resistance is fertile, not futile. The whole world is watching Harvard, and when student activists win here, there can be ripples around the world. The anti-apartheid movement at Harvard in the 1980s was a galvanizing force for the international boycott movement. The Living Wage Campaign??s 2001 sit-in was followed by a wave of campus sit-ins and workers’ rights victories nationwide on a scale not seen in 30 years...
...would work with campus leaders this year to move the UC closer to “gender parity.” ON THE BRIGHT SIDE Still, UC leaders cheered the competitiveness of this year’s races. Each house election—with the exception of the Dudley campaign??was contested, with three or more candidates on the ballot. Last year’s race saw 86 students running for four dozen spots and featured many non-competitive elections. The cause of the spike in the competition was twofold. First, the trimmed-down UC?...
...shop in Mass. Hall.The stakes are high. The completion of Summers’ unrealized vision for the University—the pursuit of reforms to the undergraduate experience and curriculum, a formidable expansion across the Charles River into Allston, and the prospect of a record-setting capital campaign??may ironically be left to his successor, who must chart the future direction of the University.“This is the most important decision that this group of overseers will make in their lifetime,” says Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree...
...race.With former frontrunners Voith and Gadgil embroiled in controversy, John S. Haddock ’07 and Annie M. Riley ’07 won an easy victory. We had gingerly endorsed Voith and Gadgil on the basis of their platform, but we rescinded that endorsement before the campaign??s end after the most serious of the accusations came to light. The UC began the spring semester with the annual debate about finding “discriminatory” student groups, defined as any organization that in any way restricts membership or officer-ship on the basis...