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...spring of 1988 has once again introduced a senior class to the annual dispute created over contributions to its alma mater. As in past years, the Endowment for Divestiture, founded in 1983, has publicly fashioned itself as the proper alternative to the Senior Gift for Undergraduate Education. Why? E4D claims that the two funds are mutually exclusive, on account of what they perceive to be the political nature of the Class Gift...
...Jonathan Martin, the Co-Chairman of E4D, explains it, seniors who donate to the Class Gift are "implicitly benefiting the immorally invested endowment," because the money seniors give to the Class Gift obviates the necessity to withdraw such money from the endowment. Their argument would have it that anyone who contributes to the Class Gift is passively supporting University investment policies...
...salaries, and maintenance of the House system and libraries. A donation to the Class Gift is a positive contribution to help ensure that future undergraduates have access to the same types of undergraduate programs and activities that we have enjoyed at Harvard-Radcliffe, regardless of their financial means. Unlike E4D's funds, donations to the Class Gift have an immediate and meaningful impact on undergraduate education...
Although Martin said he thinks students today are not as involved in anti-apartheid activities as they were two or three years ago, Evan O. Grossman '87-'88, who ran E4D last year, said he thinks "pro-divestiture sentiment has "never been higher." He said this year's organization "looks to be successful in raising both funds and awarenesss for the divestiture cause...
Gawain M. Kripke '88 and Betsy R. Fishman '88were elected Treasurer and Secretary of E4D,respectively