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...seems that a distorted notion of fairness is the common rationale behind the residents' call for Harvard to "divest" from its Cambridge real estate interests. Tanner doesn't believe it is right for her to lose her home, though she has only lived at her current address for two years. Rohr thinks that the market itself is unfair because he can't afford to live where he desires. Hall is of the socialist mindset that property seizure is just so long as it benefits the least well...
Nearly 50 Cambridge residents gathered last night in freezing temperatures to demand that Harvard divest itself from 700 formerly rent-controlled apartments...
Organizers of the vigil say they hope to win support for an Oct. 24 resolution passed by the Cambridge City Council recommending that Harvard divest itself of all its formerly rent-controlled property...
...charge of irrelevance is especially curious in light of the fact that the Crimson had run a staff editorial on the previous day calling for Harvard to divest from Shell Oil. This editorial mentioned a Council resolution, passed week and a half before, which calls for divestment as well. It is difficult to conceive that the Crimson did not consider this, the subject of their own staff editorial, relevant. Spirit Week and related events may not enhance our relevance, but they have consumed relatively little of the Council's time, energy, and money this semester...
Leading the student movement is Hafsat D. Abiola '96, daughter of the imprisoned Nigerian president-elect. Last week, Abiola convinced the Undergraduate Council to pass a resolution asking the Board of Overseers to divest from oil companies investing in Nigeria...