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...what really angers me about the divestment issue is that so many people who believe that Harvard should divest seem to think that students shouldn’t do anything about it. The latest manifestation of this predilection for inaction came in response to a call by Matthew W. Mahan ’05 and Brandon M. Terry ’05 for seniors to boycott the Senior Gift. I don’t know how many seniors have heeded Mahan and Terry’s call, but I have been shocked by the number of proud progressives who have...
...sentiment at the faculty meeting two days ago was hardly the first time that some had complained about Summers’ penchant for stifling debate and his inattentiveness to professors’ suggestions. In September of 2002, Summers characterized the effects, if not the aim, of a campaign to divest Harvard from Israel as anti-Semitic. In response, a number of professors, including Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn, criticized the president harshly for limiting open discussion on the topic. During Allston planning last February, Professor of German Peter J. Burgard bemoaned the lack of meaningful faculty...
More than 80 faculty members and nearly 600 students have signed an online petition calling on the University to divest from PetroChina. But in the final three months of last year, Harvard purchased 34,500 additional shares of the company’s stock, according to reports filed yesterday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission...
...Princeton and upsetting many in Harvard's African-American community. In a controversy in 2002, Muslims on campus said they were offended when Summers labeled as "anti-Semitic in their effect if not in their intent" the efforts of a group of students and faculty to persuade Harvard to divest its holdings in companies that do business in Israel as a protest against its treatment of Palestinians. He rattled some Asian Americans at Harvard when he used an inaccurate statistic on child prostitution to illustrate a point about South Korea's economic growth. "Larry seems to have a knack...
Summers said the rejection of calls to divest from Israel at American universities “has led to the drying up of the divestiture movement.” In an address at Memorial Church in September 2002, Summers said such movements were “anti-Semitic in their effect if not in their intent,” and he repeated those same words in Jerusalem...