Word: e4d
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second semester the council struggled to reestablish its ties to the Endowment for Divestiture (E4D), an alternative gift fund which holds seniors' donations in escrow until Harvard divests from South Africa. But interest in the fund was minimal, and work began so late in the year that E4D essentially disappeared from campus for the year...
...Unlike E4D, the class gift is not meant to foster social reform, but to get graduates into the habit of sending a check to Harvard every now and then...
...think next year the investment will pay off," Bolser said, even though he acknowledged that E4D workers spent little time trying to popularize the program among juniors. "We focused on trying to get seniors to support us, and that was hard enough...
Council Chair Kenneth E. Lee '89 said problems with E4D can be blamed on the current political climate. "E4D was founded when divestment was a very big campus issue," Lee said. "Obviously, here at Harvard and nationwide, interest in divestment has been waning...
...said that current Council Vice-Chair Noam Bramson '91, next year's probable head of the services committee, will be responsible for giving E4D continued support next year...