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In the next Student Council meeting, on April 7, the council will determine the content of the letter of endorsement that will accompany the petition.
"There has been quite a bit of concern over this particular issue [divestment]. There was a very strong base of support for the petition among the students," said first-year Med School student Matthew R. Anderson, a member of the Health and Human Rights Group (HHRG), the committee which organized...
"This university is supposed to be a community and we're trying to make our voice heard in that community. The petition is one more thing that can push the administration toward divestment," Anderson said.
Stephen N. Valef, member of HHRG, said that the group decided to circulate the petition in the past month because the students now would be the most appropriate time. "Now, generally things are coming to a head. Derek Bok will be coming back from his sabbatical, and Alumni Versus Apartheid...
In an extraordinary show of solidarity with the Chinese intellectuals and students, 160 American scholars appealed last week to the Chinese government to relax its campaign against writers and artists. The petition, which was delivered to the Chinese ambassador in Washington, said the U.S. academics are "deeply concerned" that the...