Word: divestment
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...Divestment has been a big issue on campus this semester—but last Thursday, students weren’t calling on Harvard to divest from Israel. This time, their target was Coke...
...Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Coca-Cola. HAC has called on Harvard to use this influence, particularly its shares and contracts, to effect change in Coke’s health coverage policies. If Coke doesn’t change, the protesters have asked the school to divest from Coke and terminate its contracts with the soft drink company...
Harvard, too, should do all it can to address the problem of HIV/AIDS, but it can do more if it does not divest from Coke. The University’s status as a large shareholder and contractor lets it hold Coca-Cola to a higher standard than the market alone necessarily requires. Harvard should vote its shares and pressure Coke publicly to provide full health coverage. As a premier research institution devoted to the public good and as an investor wealthy enough to be influential, Harvard is in an ideal position to lead the way on this issue...
...Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, petitioners for Harvard to divest from Israel are “bigots.” For University President Lawrence H. Summers, recent petitions “are anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent.” This demonization of the divestment drive by a pair of Harvard’s most powerful figures is unjustified...
During those remarks, Summers cited calls for the University to divest from Israel as an example of recent developments on campus that are “anti-Semitic in their effect if not in their intent...