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...program was approved by the Harvard Corporation??the University’s top governing body—on Monday, over a month after plans were finalized in February...
With the revelation two months ago that Harvard still holds stock—albeit indirectly—in companies from which it had allegedly divested because of their involvement in Sudan, the student divestment movement has been launched anew. Apparently, the Corporation??s April 2005 decision to divest from directly-held stock in PetroChina, one such company, did not translate into selling off “indirect holdings,” such as mutual funds, which hold stock in the company. While we agree with student activists that Harvard should drop more of this indirectly-held stock...
...rapport with faculty members and is respected across the University. Hyman will also give Faust a trusted top adviser in the key area of science. It is no secret that the Presidential Search Committee sought out scientists and that expansion in the sciences is at the top of the Corporation??s agenda. Although Faust is known to be particularly science-savvy for a historian, Hyman’s presence in Mass. Hall will be a great boon to Faust’s early tenure. Hyman’s expertise on efforts to expand interdisciplinary science initiatives will also...
...Kick Coke Off Campus movement attempts to end university contracts with Coca-Cola in protest of its alleged human rights and environmental violations. College students do not constitute a particularly large portion of the corporation??s profits, but the collective movement of students around the world is both symbolic and potentially influential...
...Derek C. Bok and the deans, the considerable financial support for the early stages of the initiative came as a pleasant surprise, according to Lyman Professor of Biology Andrew A. Biewener, who is the chair of the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and a member of UPCSE.The Harvard Corporation??s enthusiasm in following UPSCE’s recommendations and willingness to devote $50 million to their implementation—a virtually unheard of sum for a single initiative—is a welcome achievement for Harvard’s interdisciplinary science initiative. It demonstrates that such initiatives...