Word: divest
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...Gift has a lower-than-projected participation rate, Harvard’s alumni will want to know why. Our discontent with Harvard’s current investments will force alumni to reevaluate their contributions to a Harvard that invests in companies financing genocide. We are confident that Harvard would divest its $4 million long before it comes to that...
Professors and students alike have floated divestment petitions since then, but Mahan and Terry started to target seniors specifically in a letter two weeks ago, asking seniors not to give money to the Senior Gift Fund, but instead to the Senior Gift Plus campaign, which would give money to the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy if Harvard does not divest from PetroChina...
...website that the money donated by seniors will be held in an account and donated to the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard on October 25, 2005—exactly one full year after The Crimson publicized the investment in PetroChina—unless the Management Corporation divests from PetroChina. If Harvard chooses to divest from PetroChina before that time, then the money will go into the regular senior gift fund...
There is no ambiguity here. Senior Gift Plus is not making anyone choose between two good things—Harvard University is. If the Harvard Corporation were to divest tomorrow, there would be no Senior Gift Plus. It is the Corporation that has said through its actions that it is not willing to heed the concerns of students, faculty, and alumni about their investment in PetroChina. It is the Corporation that has said through its actions that it is not willing to divest from Sudan (or Burma for that matter) and thus not be involved prominently in the slaughter...
...Mahan and Terry are serious as they seem to be about their desire to have Harvard divest from Sudan, there are much more forceful, symbolic means of demanding that change. In the 1970s and 1980s, Harvard students campaigned for the University’s divestment from apartheid South Africa with more gusto than that involved in Mahan and Terry’s proposed boycott. On April 23, 1978, more than 1,000 people gathered outside Pusey Library to demand divestment during a closed-door meeting of the Harvard Corporation during which stock policy for the year was to be determined...