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Oppenheimer was just 38 when he was chosen to direct what was called the Manhattan Project. Brilliant and detached, kindly and arrogant, cocksure and tormented, he had long been recognized as a star of the new quantum physics, a man with an acute and elegant mind. During his years as...
The pair started Senior Gift Plus when traditional avenues of protest—such as the “awareness-raising” vigils that followed the divestment petition in the fall—proved ineffective. It was the fourth alternative senior gift campaign to arise in the last ten...
“I don’t know if it had any tangible effect,” says Manav K. Bhatnagar ’06, who started the divestment petition in October with his roommate, Ben B. Collins ’06. Later, both joined Senior Gift Plus?...
In that case, it’s possible that campus activism—the petition, marches, vigils—did not influence the Corporation decision at all. Even if it did, the key was not money but mobilization.
To its credit, the University has improved in its willingness to hear concerns from the community. Within a month of opening their petition last October, Bhatnagar and Collins were meeting with high-ranking members of the administration. The Corporation may have doubled its investment during this time, but in the...