Word: divestments
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...those stories that require investigation, and that someone somewhere would rather you not read about—it was our exposé of Harvard’s PetroChina holdings, for example, that sparked student protests and ultimately resulted in Harvard’s decision to divest from the Beijing-based firm that does business in the Sudan. Our job is to hold up the mirror to you, so that you can hold your administrators and representatives accountable for their actions...
...always been very generous concerning Harvard’s Jewish community,” says Chabad executive director Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi.“IN EFFECT, IF NOT IN INTENT”In September 2002, Summers answered a growing chorus of voices who had for months demanded that Harvard divest from companies doing business in the West Bank. “Some here at Harvard and some at universities across the country have called for the University to single out Israel among all nations as the lone country where it is inappropriate for any part of the University?...
...When asked afterwards about the content of her remarks, Wisse said, “I wrote an op-ed for The Crimson...my thoughts are in it.” In a Feb. 17 op-ed, Wisse criticized fellow faculty members who signed a 2002 petition urging Harvard to divest from Israeli firms...
...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...
...student petition calling for divestment from firms operating in Sudan has re-emerged with a new focus on the Beijing-based oil company Sinopec and has garnered roughly 200 signatures over the past week, according to organizers. The original petition last year urged Harvard to sell its stake in PetroChina, another oil company linked to Sudan. Harvard ultimately divested from that firm last spring.And in a Mass Hall interview yesterday, University President Lawrence H. Summers expressed his hope that Harvard will quickly move to examine the issue of divestment from Sudan-linked companies that remain in its portfolio...