Word: divestment
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Summers’ Judaism entered the spotlight a year into his tenure, when he famously said a petition urging the University to divest from Israel was one of several actions that were “anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent...
...something other than fundraising—even the right to exercise his First Amendment rights. So in the spring of 2002, lower Manhattan was still a blackened gash left by Islamo-Nazis, and suicide bombers were murdering Israeli grandparents and children at their seder tables. The deduction: Harvard should divest from companies that do business with Israel, honked the herd. (Some European geese—may they get bird flu—went farther, banning Israeli academics, even critics of government policy, from journals and meetings.) When President Summers suggested, much more charitably than necessary in my view, that...
...very basic processes of running our university.” Some pro-Summers professors say that his critics are motivated by objections to his political views-—such as his support of the Reserve Officer Training Corps and his outspoken opposition to calls for Harvard to divest from Israel. But most of Summers’ critics don’t want to be bogged down in a point-by-point debate over the factors that led to the president’s departure. “This is done, okay?” Ulrich said...
...which we assumed meant traditional exclusivity) when it came to affirmative action. In a bid to recreate some of the drama of the 1960’s sit-ins, a group of students tried to confront Bok at Massachusetts Hall over the university’s decision not to divest immediately from South Africa. Instead of meeting with them, Bok quietly decamped to spend the day working in Dana Palmer House. A few days later, the Crimson published an Animal Farm-like allegory about the incident that labeled the president “Derek the Duck...
...issues, Reeves took a more forceful approach. He and his roommate and best friend, Doug Harris ’72 (the two believed they were the personification of Lorraine Hansberry’s play, “To Be Young, Gifted and Black”) fought for Harvard to divest from investments in Apartheid-era South Africa. When Harris helped coordinate a 1972 occupation of Massachusetts Hall, Reeves joined in the protesting...