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...group of seniors launched a satirical website called seniorgiftplusplus.com last weekend, mocking the recent Senior Gift Plus campaign which Matthew W. Mahan ’05 and Brandon M. Terry ’05 launched almost two weeks...
These words from Matthew W. Mahan ’05 and Brandon Terry ’05 could not be more true. The two former student organization presidents wrote the above denunciation in a Feb. 18 e-mail to the Class of 2005. In the e-mail, Mahan and Terry encouraged their peers to withhold their contributions to the Senior Gift, a traditional donation to the Harvard College Fund given by the graduating Senior Class, until Harvard agrees to divest from PetroChina. PetroChina’s parent company, an oil company almost wholly owned by the Chinese government, is participating...
...their letter to their peers, Mahan and Terry claim, “that there is a clear moral imperative,” to withhold donations to the Senior Gift. We disagree, and see no reason that support for divestment and support for one’s Senior Gift should be considered mutually exclusive. To say that seniors who choose to donate are complicit in the horrifying situation in Darfur is ludicrous and forces an unfair and unnecessary choice on Harvard seniors. The Senior Gift’s mission is an intensely positive one, and its goals need not be jeopardized...
...decision to waive tuition for families with annual incomes under $40,000 was made possible by the Harvard College Fund and, more importantly, by the practice of giving back to Harvard post-graduation—a practice which is engendered by the tradition of the Senior Gift. Mahan and Terry’s proposed boycott would hold hostage much of the potential impetus for such desirable changes in the future. Seniors should not withhold donations to financial aid initiatives to achieve a desirable change in Harvard’s investment policies. There are other, less detrimental ways to demand divestment...
...Mahan and Terry are serious as they seem to be about their desire to have Harvard divest from Sudan, there are much more forceful, symbolic means of demanding that change. In the 1970s and 1980s, Harvard students campaigned for the University’s divestment from apartheid South Africa with more gusto than that involved in Mahan and Terry’s proposed boycott. On April 23, 1978, more than 1,000 people gathered outside Pusey Library to demand divestment during a closed-door meeting of the Harvard Corporation during which stock policy for the year was to be determined...