Word: divestments
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After visiting a refugee camp in Darfur, Cambridge’s congressional representative called last week for Harvard to divest funds from companies with business ties to the Sudanese government. In an interview from Ghana with the Boston Herald, U.S. Rep. Mike Capuano, D-Mass., said the University should “do what’s right” and sever financial connections to the Khartoum regime, which the U.S. government has accused of supporting genocide. This isn’t the first time Capuano has broached the divestment issue. Last April, he asked public pension boards in Massachusetts...
Brown University’s highest governing board voted Saturday to divest its holdings in companies doing business in Sudan—becoming the second Ivy League university to do so in the last month...
...While divestment from PetroChina this past April made Harvard the first university to divest its holdings from companies tied to Sudan, its divestment has not been as comprehensive as that of either Yale or Brown...
...vu.When Bok was at Harvard’s helm in the late 1970s, the campus was consumed by a controversy over the University’s financial links to apartheid-era South Africa.Bok, who returns to Mass. Hall on July 1, took a skeptical stance toward divestment demands.In open letters to the Harvard community, Bok wrote that he believed divestment was unlikely to help end apartheid, and might threaten the University’s academic mission and financial stability.This time, as students want Harvard to sever ties with companies that do business with the Sudanese government, Bok?...
Summers ignited further debate later that year at Harvard’s Morning Prayers when he called campaigns for the University to divest from Israel “anti-Semitic in their effect if not in their intent...