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With a theatrical flair fit for Rossini, Adjah led a mock funeral procession through campus dining halls on April 3 to dramatize the ongoing genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan. The following morning, student protesters converged on Loeb House at the eastern edge of the Yard, as Harvard’s Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR)—which makes the final call in matters of divestiture—met inside...
...It’s important to mention that Senior Gift Plus was really an effort to help the situation in Darfur, more than to hurt Senior Gift,” Kendall said. “It was unfortunate that they had to choose this method...
...wrapped up in Senior Gift versus Senior Gift Plus because that looks cute in newspapers and makes for good dinner time conversation,” he said. “The real triumph of Senior Gift Plus is that it forced the entire campus to talk about Darfur for months, where we had refused to before—with all the columns and protests outside, we could ignore that...
Following Harvard’s lead, Stanford University last week became the second major institutional shareholder to divest from oil company PetroChina in protest of the Beijing-based firm’s role in funding the ongoing genocide in the western Sudanese region of Darfur...
...only tangible things that have been done for Darfur writ large have happened at this University,” Power said in May, referring to divestment and Swipe-for-Darfur...