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Gallo, though, said that much of the campaign’s draw stemmed from its lack of requirements for most members. “Part of the reason people signed on to Senior Gift Plus is it’s an easy way to not give money,” she said...
...great things about our whole movement was that it started out with the divestment petitions and the columns and the conversations. Those were rejected,” Terry said. “We did Senior Gift Plus. The entire campus flips out. It’s picked up by Air America and German TV, just everywhere, right. Harvard is just thrown for a loop. They make the decision to divest faster than they probably would have...
...Clearly, the divestment movement has not taken off in the way we hoped it might,” says Matthew W. Mahan ’05, a co-founder of Senior Gift Plus, whose members had pledged to withhold their graduation donations from the Harvard College Fund until the University cut its ties with PetroChina...
...divestment which collected thousands of signatures from students and Faculty. Their efforts stimulated much-needed awareness of genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan, where state-sponsored murders are responsible for an estimated 400,000 deaths. A couple of months later, two Harvard seniors launched a controversial campaign, Senior Gift Plus (SGP), and the divestment debate was in full swing...
...Brandon M. Terry ’05, former presidents of the Undergraduate Council and the Black Men’s Forum respectively, implored the Senior class to consider the gravity of genocide and to do something to stop it. They asked their peers to withhold their donations to Senior Gift, a traditional donation to the Harvard College Fund (HCF) by the graduating class, until the University divested from PetroChina. Their group—called Senior Gift Plus (SGP)—argued that by holding these investments, the University was indirectly complicit for the deaths in Darfur. Thus, any money...