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Anybody who has read this column before (thanks, Mom) knows that I don’t usually weigh in on campus politics. When I decided to write about Senior Gift Plus, I didn’t know what I was getting into. Since my last column, I’ve gotten compliments from people I’ve never met, and I’ve had friends act like I just killed their cat. The issue raises international questions about corporate money in repressive countries and local questions about the role of Senior Gift at Harvard. Everybody seems...
Collin’s proposal comes amidst similar calls for divestment at Harvard, which owns shares of PetroChina, a Chinese oil company that does business with the Sudanese government. A group of Harvard seniors has recently created a campaign called Senior Gift Plus that is lobbying seniors to withhold their donations to the Senior Gift until Harvard divests from PetroChina...
...contributions from alumni increased only two percent across surveyed institutions. While the average gift size rose, the percentage of alumni who contributed declined to 12.8 percent...
...Vascellaro is doubtful that there will be any long-term effect of this year’s Senior Gift Plus campaign. By the time of the kickoff dinner, the campaign had already raised $11,000 and some houses had already exceeded a 10 percent participation rate...
...gift-laden friends, barely back from some corner of the globe, re-immerse themselves in the mundane rhythm of response papers and tutorial reading, their stories of the halcyon life they had shuttling from host family to host family in Lesotho draw us further down the path of study-abroad envy. Of course, mostly we hear about alcohol. We hear stories about our friends getting smashed and hooking up with that girl in tight jeans and pointy, Euro-trash boots. Or about how wine is really cheap in Italy, beer in Germany, or Ouzo in Greece. A friend of mine...