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...debate began almost two weeks ago when Matthew W. Mahan ’05 and Brandon M. Terry ’05 decided to take a stand against Harvard’s recently-increased investment in PetroChina—a Chinese oil company which has purchased the rights to drill in the southern Sudan and has ties to a Sudanese government linked to the genocide in Darfur—by taking aim at the Senior Gift campaign...
...Mahan and Terry asked seniors in an open letter published in a Feb. 24 advertisement in The Crimson urging seniors to refrain from donating to the Senior Gift campaign, which raises funds for the Harvard College Fund or future undergraduate financial...
...Mahan and Terry shortly thereafter switched their strategy. Instead of encouraging people not to donate, they asked seniors to contribute to an alternative campaign—Senior Gift Plus, via a website Mahan and Terry set up, seniorgiftplus.com...
...Harvard divests by then, the money will go to the College Fund, Mahan said...
Otherwise, Mahan and Terry said that they plan to donate those funds to the Kennedy School of Government’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy...