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After I graduated, a number of alumni withheld contributions from Harvard and put them in an escrow fund until divestiture occurred (which turned out to be in 1990, coincidentally the year Mandela was freed and well after the crucial struggles had happened). We also petitioned to elect candidates supporting divestiture, among other things, to the Board of Overseers, and successfully elected both Gay Seidman '78, first woman president of The Crimson and an SASC activist, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu to the Overseers, much against Harvard's wishes...
...group, composed of nearly 2,000 alumni,have established the Harvard Women FacultyFund--money that will be held in escrow untilHarvard has adopted effective measures forachieving a significant increase in the number oftenured women faculty...
...group established an escrow fund last year for seniors who wanted to with-hold money from the University until it reaches its own goals for a diverse faculty...
...online commerce, whose Enterprise Integration Technologies developed much of the technology that makes Web transactions possible--believes that XML offers nothing less than "the real possibility of fundamentally restructuring the way a given industry works." If you can get everyone in, say, the real estate business--the brokers, the escrow agents, the mortgage banks--to adopt XML, says Tenenbaum, "you really can start to think about changing the rules: paperless closings, real-time mortgage bidding...
...Faculty positions, right now is the time to encourage progress and goad it along with vocal support and the weapon that strikes Harvard's heel: money. Already, the Committee for the Equality of Women at Harvard has received $500,000 from alumnae that it plans to hold in escrow until the University has tenured an acceptable number of women--specifically, the standpoint set by the University report of 1970. And the senior class has established the Alternative Senior Gift Fund with the same criterion for its release...