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Ten members of the UC signed a petition of impeachment for Ian Nichols on the grounds that he was not doing the job to which he was elected and the effects of that were hurting the council and the campus. Upon receiving the petition, I met with Ian to deliver...
The events of the last two weeks are surprisingly straightforward. A petition for impeachment does not constitute foul play; it is instead a constitutional tool that places a check on the performance of an executive. No one was forced out, no one was coerced, and members were certainly not threatened...
Just scant hours before Nichols ultimately announced his resignation, he was approached by current and former members of the UC’s executive board in an orchestrated attempt to force his resignation. His leadership, attendance, and dedication to the UC were questioned, and threats to embarrass him and his...
Still, Manav K. Bhatnagar ’06, an organizer of the student-faculty petition that helped spur the University’s PetroChina divestment, said that “Harvard has already admitted the close nexus between oil revenue and the ongoing Sudanese genocide.”
Benjamin B. Collins ’06, a co-writer of the petition for Harvard to divest from Sudan, said that Power’s letter will also give more leverage to student groups trying to veer their universities in the direction of divestment.