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...acquaintance in your House calls you and comes over to talk about the Senior Class Gift. But then someone else tells you about Endowment for Divestiture (E4D), about how giving to E4D will make Harvard a better place because it will help Harvard divest its stocks in companies dealing with the racist South African government...

Author: By Mark E. Feinberg, | Title: A Run for Your Money | 4/20/1984 | See Source »

...Class Committee elected by the senior class. It is appalling that elected student representatives go through lists of fellow-students marking off those who are good workers and those who have a lot of money. Would Wadsworth House allow the Class Committee to extend this service to E4D as well, or make the information public...

Author: By Mark E. Feinberg, | Title: A Run for Your Money | 4/20/1984 | See Source »

...Endowment for Divestiture does not scare Harvard because it diverts money from the University--E4D received only about seven or eight grand last year, chickenfeed in a Harvard ledger. The problem is that Harvard sees E4D as threatening the whole socialization process by which Harvard ties alumni into specific class years, each with the specific task of raising as much money as possible. The drop of the Senior Gift participation rate--the percentage of seniors giving to the Class Gift--was over twenty points last year. That was the first year E4D got off the ground, and Harvard can only...

Author: By Mark E. Feinberg, | Title: A Run for Your Money | 4/20/1984 | See Source »

...E4D is set up as part of the Undergraduate Council's charter as a fund that will hold contributions until Harvard divests of stock in South Africa. If Harvard has not done so in twenty years, or if the United Nations overturns its special condemnation of South Africa (which would probably mean that South Africa has struck down apartheid), the money will to to Harvard charities like the Phillips Brooks House, Room 13, Response...

Author: By Mark E. Feinberg, | Title: A Run for Your Money | 4/20/1984 | See Source »

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