Word: divestments
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...announcement coincided with a student demonstration this morning, where students—wearing black and carrying signs—rallied for Harvard to divest its holdings in PetroChina...
...Corporation’s decision to divest was made by the three-member Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR), which considers investment issues of this nature. The twelve-member Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR), students, faculty, and alumni, had advised the CCSR to divest...
Since November, more than 80 professors and several hundred students have signed a petition calling for the University to divest from PetroChina. And dozens of members of the Class of 2005 have pledged to withhold their senior gifts from the Harvard College Fund unless the University sells its stake...
...Plus shows any agenda can serve as an excuse to “hijack” Senior Gift. The site suggests a number of causes that students could use for boycotting the Gift. The first suggestion is that students justify their boycott based on a desire to see Harvard divest from U.S. Government T-Bills, and the others are similarly absurd. The site’s creators include an explanation of the serious point they are trying to make. They want, according to the site, to “point out that everyone has gripes with Harvard be they serious...
...argument, in some form, has been made so many times it has become a cliché. If we pressure Harvard to divest from a company doing business with a genocidal government, next thing you know we’ll be going after T-bills. We shouldn’t weigh the merits of this particular case because we’d be setting a precedent that might lead us to do something stupid in the future. Apparently Harvard students can’t be trusted to realize that a T-bills campaign is qualitatively different than a campaign focused...