Word: divests
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...even this doesn't fit the administration's plan. In recent years, the University has used all the resources it can to block the election of Overseers candidates from the Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid slate, which is committed to getting Harvard to divest from its holdings in South African-related companies--a cause I agree with. Alumni Association officials have sent letters at University expense to convince alumni not to vote for them. A few weeks ago one said publicly that these candidates "do not have Harvard's best interests at heart...
...three Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA) members on the Board push Harvard to divest its $168.3 million in South Africa-related stock and push the Board to take a more active--and often adversarial--role, the University's response has become more closed and paranoic...
...University does not divest by 2003, the E4D trust fund will be turned over to a local charity...
...upon the practices of other institutions of American higher education. It therefore has inherited a moral reponsibility of national import with respect to the issue of faculty diversity. To some extent, this view is similar to that of those who have struggled so mightily for the Harvard Corporation to divest its stock in companies that are in South Africa. However, in the case of hiring a fair number of Black faculty, there cannot be an analogous counter-argument suggesting that an immediate loss would accrue to the University in any regard--which makes the situation all the more puzzling. Some...
SOME of Egan's remarks in the last week have also brought the plane of the debate around the overseers election to a new low. He said that Tutu, who has for years called on Harvard to divest its remaining $168.3 million in South Africa-related stock, "has absolutely no interest in running Harvard." And he called those on last year's alternate slate, none of whom were elected to the Board, "second-rate' candidates...