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Scaling the steps of Widener is the closest most contemporary Harvard students have come to mountain climbing.But now the Harvard Mountaineering Club (HMC) is set on revitalizing its faded legacy with an August trek to southeast Kyrgzstan, a country that borders Kazakhstan...
...challenge ourselves,” he writes in an e-mail. “To learn. To honor HMC past expeditions. To set an example for future HMC expeditions...
...meeting of the Harvard Mountaineering Club (HMC) last Thursday, President Lucas T. Laursen ’06 demonstrated his skill in opening a beer bottle with a carabiner. But in just four months, he will use the same tool to safely summit peaks in southeastern Kyrgyzstan that, until now, have never been visited by an American expedition...
...foreign investments with a fine-toothed comb may make continued divestment proponents salivate. And it might yield a few more companies that Harvard should consider divesting from. But it would also reveal Harvard’s positions to other investors, and it would set a dangerous precedent. The HMC cannot feasibly operate with student oversight. Continued divestment proponents should be content with CCSR’s new spirit of scrutiny—as evidenced by its decision to recommend divestment from PetroChina—and trust the Corporation, and the HMC, to police themselves. Lines have to be drawn. Ultimately...
This is not to diminish the triumph of student activists, who likely had a major impact on the CCSR’s decision. In November, then-HMC President Jack R. Meyer said to The Crimson that “divestment is not an effective way to make social change” and argued that such an action would only eliminate jobs for the Sudanese people. It is safe to assume that no such statements will be uttered by anyone at the HMC anytime soon. This culture change among Harvard’s financial managers will ensure that they will think...