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...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...
...Harvard alumna, now a Illinois State Senator, will present a bill this week that would require banks, pension funds, and the retirement system in Illinois to divest from companies with ties to the Sudanese government...
Senator Collins’ legislation, if successful, would send an “unambiguous message” to the Sudanese government, Benjamin B. Collins ’06, the co-founder of an online petition calling on Harvard to divest its shares of PetroChina, wrote in an e-mail. Benjamin Collins is not related to Senator Jacqueline Collins...
...refusal to divest says that we care more about making the return on four million dollars than about genocide.” Terry said. “It’s all about money, and that’s offensive...
...Faculty members question Summers’ comments at a Morning Prayer in which he called demands to divest University funds from Israel “anti-Semitic in their effect if not in their intent...