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...year when former Director of Dining Services Michael P. Berry decided to remain with Coca-Cola instead of switching to Pepsi, part of his rationale was Pepsico's involvement in Burma. (And the loss of this $1,000,000 contract became part of Pepsico's subsequent decision to partially divest from the Asian country...
...staff's knee-jerk reaction to the uncovering of severe racism at Texaco wrongly calls for the University to divest should Harvard not be able to clear the oil company of its tarnished name. In so doing, a mistaken question is posed: The issue is not whether Texaco's executives have institutionalized racism there (they have), but how Harvard can most effectively combat that racism...
...think Harvard should divest at this point," Simons said. "If this is ongoing, we may feel that we should divest later on, but right now I think it's too early...
...instance, the Undergraduate Council passed legislation last year requesting that University divest itself of assets in Shell Oil Company, legislation asking the College to officially replace the term "freshman" with the term "first-year," and legislation demanding Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 prevent Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) students from being commissioned in Harvard Yard during Commencement Week. And what came of all this toil? Absolutely nothing. The University still holds assets in Shell, we still have a "Freshman" Dean's Office, and ROTC students are still being commissioned in the Yard...
Malone said that if the State Legislature wants him to divest from tobacco companies, it should pass a law to that effect