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...often seems as though the world is not nearly doing enough to prevent genocide unfolding in Sudan, and we continually applaud the Harvard Darfur Action Group (HDAG) for their efforts in stopping what is clearly a horrific situation. Their latest plandespite its good intentionsis unfortunately ill-considered, and could have adverse effects on the student body as a whole...
Responding to organized student pressure, at least two of Harvard’s graduate schools have agreed to allow students and affiliates to use Crimson Cash to support peacekeepers in the Darfur region of Sudan...
...Monday night, a student-led group started an online petition, at www.harvardinvest.com, to show support for the option of using dining plan money to fund peacekeeping in Darfur. As of 11:30 last night, 2,779 people—roughly half of whom are undergraduates, the other half students at Harvard’s graduate schools—had placed their names on the petition...
...students pushing for the option to donate BoardPlus or Crimson Cash to aid the situation in Darfur say the money will go to the Genocide Intervention Fund (GIF), which provides logistical support to troops monitoring the shaky year-old cease-fire in the region in western Sudan. The Darfur government has sanctioned the actions of militia groups that have killed tens of thousands of residents there...
...party of foreign policy idealism? And since when are the Democrats—who authored the Fourteen Points, the New Freedom, the Marshall Plan, and NATO—the party of dictator-coddling realists? And most recently: the party that fails to pound Bush for dragging his feet on Darfur nearly as much as we pounded him for rushing into Iraq...