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...Senior Gift Plus actually worked. For the first time in 400 years, the Harvard Corporation bowed to student calls for something, and an important something at that: divestment from a company which does business in the genocidal state of Sudan...
...mass murder in Sudan is a tragedy of a scope I cannot comprehend. I applaud Senior Gift Plus founders Matthew W. Mahan ’05 and Brandon M. Terry ’05 for bringing it to the forefront of our collective consciousness in a way that could actually effect change in the way the University does business...
...Despite the fact that Senior Gift Plus will almost certainly continue to exist, the issue that most seniors who were associated with Senior Gift Plus were concerned about has been resolved,” said Vascellaro, who is also a Crimson editor...
...Senior Gift Plus campaign, which added new leverage to calls for divestment, also helped form a consensus around opposition to Harvard’s holdings in PetroChina. The campaign posed a serious problem for Senior Gift fundraisers, who declined to support the University’s investment in PetroChina, but argued that withholding money from the Senior Gift fund was not the appropriate means of protest...
...interview yesterday, Jessica E. Vascellaro, spokeswoman for the Senior Gift Executive Committee, said she hoped the University’s decision to divest would put an end to the controversy...