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...cool April evening in 1978, more than 3,500 students took to the streets of Cambridge to protest the Harvard Corporation’s decision to reject student demands that the University divest itself of holdings in companies operating in South Africa...
...that seems to be the rub. The signers of the petition to divest from Blair Hornstine, and the many others who have expressed similar sentiments over e-mail lists, seem to feel that Hornstine’s actions are so outrageous—so uniquely outrageous—that her matriculation at Harvard would substantially lower the College’s moral tenor...
...morning prayers address at Memorial Church last fall, University President Lawrence H. Summers described the petition and other calls for the University to divest from Israel as anti-Semitic “in their effect if not in their intent...
While the council in the spring of 1999 fought over bills endorsing same-sex marriage legislation and urging the University to divest from companies like and Exxon, Chevron and Mobil, today’s council’s biggest debates are over things like funding for student groups...
Hanson, who received much criticism earlier this year for his support of a petition to divest from Israel, said he took “great comfort” in Lewis’s support of free speech...