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...divestiture movement has been a success. When it started in 1972, Harvard did not recognize any moral responsibility in making investments. There was no ACSR. Hugh Calkins' statement of last year, that Harvard did not "take ethics into account when making financial decisions," was literally and undeniably true. It took a seizure of the President's office by members of the Black Students Association in 1972 to make the Harvard Corporation recognize there were moral responsibilities inherent in managing $2 billion dollars. But those students made the University recognize its involvement in the outside world, and the Advisory Committee...
Over the last three years, the Harvard Corporation has tried repeatedly to return to the old days of amoral investing. Treasurer George Putnam '49 floated the idea in 1982 that Harvard would invest in banks that gave "humanitarian" loans to the South African government. Last year, Corporation member Hugh Calkins denied Harvard took moral questions into account when investing Each time the Corporation has tried to go back on the commitments it made in 1977-79, the divestiture movement has responded, by packing ACSR meetings, holding vigils and rallies, and most notably last year with the fast for divestiture...
Other targets include former New York Governor Hugh Carey ("One simply doesn't understand what he says") and Jimmy Carter ("mean and vindictive...
...also attacks politicians. He claims that Senator Edward Kennedy "rehearsed" his chilly handshake with Carter at the 1980 Democratic National Convention, and depicts former New York Governor Hugh Carey and New York City Mayor Edward Koch as "ingrates.. . hat in one hand, shiv in the other...
...David Boyum (H) d. Hugh Labossier...