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...response to Mahan and Terry’s letter, the Senior Gift Committee plans to continue to relay to seniors the purpose of the fund, stressing that Harvard’s investment in PetroChina and the Senior Gift “are totally unrelated,” Vascellero said. The Senior Gift committee still hopes to achieve its goal of getting 75 percent of the class to donate, she said...
...that won’t happen if Mahan and Terry have their way. In their letter they ask seniors “to keep [participation] at zero until Harvard takes a principled stand against genocide...
Activists against the Sudanese genocide commended Mahan and Terry for their most recent efforts. Jesse A. Sage ’98, associate director of the American Anti-Slavery Group, which an organization that advocates against modern slavery, said, “[Students] realize that money talks. Withholding the class gift is an important symbolic way to express student outrage over the news that Harvard has increased—rather than divested—its PetroChina holdings...
...Mahan and Terry’s initiative is part of a larger trend of student activism encouraging Harvard’s divestment from PetroChina...
...gift campaign is not the first of Mahan and Terry’s efforts for divestment. Last year, the pair demonstrated against graduation speaker and United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan for failing to take action against the genocide in Sudan...