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Forget penny-pinching classmates: this year’s student fundraisers for Senior Gift had to battle a counter-campaign, a counter-counter–campaign, a flurry of media coverage, and a major Corporation announcement...
...February, student activists turned the spotlight away from the Yard and toward conflict in Sudan. Calling their campaign Senior Gift Plus, they asked classmates to withhold donations to the annual fundraising drive until Harvard sold its shares in PetroChina, a Beijing-based oil firm with ties to the Sudanese government. In an unusual move, the Harvard Corporation agreed in April to divest...
Despite a surge of donations in April, Senior Gift raised the least money since 1998 and attracted the lowest participation figure since 2001. As of last week 941 seniors—60 percent of the Class of 2005—had donated a total of $31,108 to the campaign...
Brandon M. Terry ’05, the former president of the Black Men’s Forum and one of the leaders of Senior Gift Plus, said the divestment made it impossible to tell what impact the movement had on the campaign’s numbers...
...participation rate stood at 23 percent in mid-April, but organizers made a push during the last week of House Competition, which ended April 24. Kaitlin P. Gallo ’05, a Senior Gift co-chair, said she thinks the low initial figures stemmed from procrastination rather than the Senior Gift Plus campaign...