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This Senior Gift Plus Campaign immediately generated controversy over house open lists and among seniors, with officers of Senior Gift Fund claiming that the PetroChina funds and Senior Gifts were totally unrelated...
Professors and students alike have floated divestment petitions since then, but Mahan and Terry started to target seniors specifically in a letter two weeks ago, asking seniors not to give money to the Senior Gift Fund, but instead to the Senior Gift Plus campaign, which would give money to the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy if Harvard does not divest from PetroChina...
...Senior Gift Plus says on their website that the money donated by seniors will be held in an account and donated to the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard on October 25, 2005—exactly one full year after The Crimson publicized the investment in PetroChina—unless the Management Corporation divests from PetroChina. If Harvard chooses to divest from PetroChina before that time, then the money will go into the regular senior gift fund...
...We’re really disgusted with what Mahan and Terry have done with the gift,” Kafie said. “Our take on this is that the whole divestment issue is a very serious topic...what Mahan and Terry have done has simplified the issue...
...We’re not trying to belittle the issue in the Darfur, quite the opposite,” Kafie said. “We’re really attacking the means of the gift plus campaign...