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...although some, like Endowment forDivestiture (E4D) chairman Jonathan E. Martin '88,say activism 20 years ago covered the same broadspectrum that it does today, others say recentactivism has edged away from foreign policy. Theysay activism is coming home, focusing on socialissues such as discrimination based on race, sex,or sexual orientation...
...University, in which case the tone of urgency and desperate need Warren disingenuously adopts is ludicrous; or donations really are necessary for the functioning of the University, in which case a donation is explicit support for the way the University is currently run, including its investment policies. Supporters of E4D feel that at this time the University does not deserve such support, and because a contribution can be made in a deferred way (unlike tuition), those who want to use their donation to influence Harvard ought to support E4D...
...inconsistency" of supporting both E4D and the Class Gift, Warren is just plain dumb to suggest that it is shown false by the mere fact that some people don't care whether their actions have consistent justification. People do things they can't justify; the doing doesn't substitute for justification. And of course those in charge of E4D would rather have students give to both funds than only to the Senior Gift; self-defeating ideological purity ill serves everyone's interests...
...Warren's piece is the best defense the Senior Gift can come up with, prospects for E4D have never looked better. Diane J. Klein '87 Philosophy Department University of California, Berkeley
...meantime, the only option for those wishing to express their anger at Harvard's investment policy and to protest its fundraising practices is to give to E4D, which emphasizes the numbers who give rather than the number that they give. In the likely event that Harvard does not divest and apartheid does not end, the money in E4D will be given to Phillips Brooks House to aid its worthwhile endeavors in the Boston area...