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...Forum President Brandon M. Terry ’05 started “Senior Gift Plus,” which promised to withhold seniors’ donations until the University divested from PetroChina, a company intimately involved with the Sudanese government and by extension with the genocide in Darfur. Still more seniors were dissuaded from donating by University President Lawrence H. Summers’ remarks about the “intrinsic aptitude” of women in science. Senior Gift was effectively co-opted to serve one of a number of political causes completely unrelated to the spirit...
...report, to “help students develop their capacities…for responsible judgment”—to invest in the arms trade, in ecological disaster, in the terrorizing of workers in Colombia, in the military dictatorship in Burma, or until last spring, in genocide in Darfur...
...events of Kristallnacht, Simon said, have a relevance to current human-rights crises, like those underway in Darfur...
Last year, two Harvard seniors began an alternative campaign to protest the University’s investment in a Chinese oil company that has ties to the Sudanese government linked to the genocide in Darfur...
...such actions in higher education, we also recognize that there are special instances that warrant overt moral decisions to be made on behalf of the University. Last year, we strongly advocated for the University to sell its stake in PetroChina because of the company’s dealings in Darfur. While it was true that the University might have had other questionable investments, PetroChina was a particularly egregious and visible case that demanded the University’s consideration. It commanded student and faculty attention and thus the University responded to community concern. Harvard’s $25.9 billion dollar...