Word: darfur
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Over 1,500 Harvard students and affiliates have signed an online petition since Monday night calling for Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) to allow undergraduates to donate leftover BoardPlus funds to support peacekeepers in the Sudanese region of Darfur...
...organizers of the petition will meet with the HUDS chief this afternoon to ask that undergraduates have the option to contribute the money to the Genocide Intervention Fund (GIF), which provides logistical support to troops monitoring the shaky year-old cease-fire in Darfur, where government-supported militias have killed tens of thousands of residents...
...petition, the brainchild of Thomas D. Hadfield ’08 and coordinated by the Harvard Darfur Action Group (HDAG), had garnered 1,642 signatures from undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and staff as of 11:30 p.m. last night...
Hadfield said that while he realizes the proposal would divert funds from HUDS’ budget, he thinks addressing the situation in Darfur should trump this fiscal concern...
Instead of an angry mob of students demanding transparency from the super-secret and dictatorial Harvard Corporation, we have Senior Gift Plus, which politely asked Harvard to stop funding rape and mass murder in Darfur. And even that noble and successful movement had its detractors: a group of largely wealthy undergrads who had pledged their own pocket money (raised no doubt, from their after-school jobs, right?) to Fair Harvard, and couldn’t absorb the idea that there was a legitimate objection to their peers duly shelling out cash...