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...effort urging students to withhold Senior Gift donations until Harvard University divests from PetroChina, a Beijing-based oil company with ties to the government in Sudan, is set to begin today...
...their letter, released yesterday to The Crimson, Mahan and Terry asked their classmates “to refuse to contribute to the Senior Gift because Harvard, through its investments, is complicit in the Sudan crisis...
...Senior Gift Spokesperson Jessica E. Vascellero ’05, who is also a Crimson editor, said she fails to see the rationale of the campaign, pointing out that the Senior Gift is separate from the endowment that holds shares in PetroChina...
...Asking students to withhold money is asking them to turn their backs on future Harvard students,” Vascellero said. “The purpose of the Senior Gift is not related to the endowment or PetroChina; the money goes toward financial aid and pressing needs of the University...
According to the Senior Gift Committee’s website, the annual fund is designed to encourage seniors to give back to the University and advance undergraduate education. Donors can either give money to financial aid or to an unrestricted fund for expenses not covered by other University incomes...