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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...
Just as participation in the Senior Gift signifies student confidence in Harvard, SGP indicates to our community and to the world that we value human life, and positively contributes back to Harvard. Upon Harvard’s divestment from PetroChina, all SGP funds will be contributed in their entirety to the Senior Gift. If, however the University fails to divest, we will contribute to Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights—an example of one part of the University that is working to end genocide. To be sure, giving to worthy organizations working directly...
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...