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...mobilizing the campus, maybe even accelerating the divestment??it was vital,” Bhatnagar says. “For five months before this it was me and Ben in our bedrooms...

Author: By David B. Rochelson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Giving Me? | 4/28/2005 | See Source »

Last June the Presbyterian Church USA’s General Assembly—which represents the denomination’s 2.5 million adherents nationwide, initiated “a process of phased selective divestment?? but did not call for the immediate sale of stock in firms with ties to Israel, said the Rev. Thomas F. Kepler of the Boston Presbytery...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Israel Divestment Debate Reignited | 4/27/2005 | See Source »

...famous September 2002 morning prayers address, Summers said that divestment??a drive urging Harvard to disinvest from holdings in Israel because of alleged human rights violations—and similar movements singling out Israel were “anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent.” In that address, he expressed his concern from a very personal perspective, despite its strong impact on campus...

Author: By Stephen M. Marks and Lauren A.E. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Under the Lights: Summers Addresses National Audience | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

SASC’s demonstrations drew a great deal of attention to the issue of divestment??an issue of contention at colleges across the country at that time—and led to deeper evaluation of the matter...

Author: By Jaquelyn M. Scharnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Out of Africa | 6/4/2003 | See Source »

...text of Summers’ speech suggests he was aware of this threat. His list of anti-Semitic activities is sandwiched between two affirmations of the value of open dialog, one immediately before and one immediately after. But that awareness was not enough to dissuade him from labeling all divestment??s advocates by its most extreme members. Summers has every right to speak his mind on political issues, to be sure. But it is incumbent upon him to do so responsibly, in a way that protects the “academic freedom of everyone to take any position...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Summers Stifles Israel Debate | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

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