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*Last week Scarface Capone's petition for review of his eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion was before the Supreme Court of the U. S.
Since November, more than 80 professors and several hundred students have signed a petition calling for the University to divest from PetroChina. And dozens of members of the Class of 2005 have pledged to withhold their senior gifts from the Harvard College Fund unless the University sells its stake.
In a statement yesterday afternoon, Benjamin B. Collins ’06 and Manav K. Bhatnagar ’06, who launched the campus divestment petition, said that they were unaware of Harvard’s overseas holdings in PetroChina.
As Summers departed from the Loeb with his police escort, a member of CASH presented the president with a petition calling for his resignation, which had 179 signatures gathered over the last month from people in the Harvard community as well as academics across the country.
CASH leveled nine main criticisms against Summers in its petition, including the low number of female and minority professors in tenured faculty positions and the alleged low pay for Harvard workers.