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65 Harvard faculty members, including two house masters, sign a petition to President Lawrence H. Summers, calling on Harvard and M.I.T. to sell their $620 million in the stocks of companies that do business in Israel. 300 Harvard professors sign a petition that urges President Summers to continue to invest...
In 1979, the Corporation denounces the South African apartheid system as “repugnant and inhumane” but announces that it will employ a system of proxy voting for partial divestment, asking the companies in which it invests to withdraw from South Africa. The Corporation rules out complete...
A Crimson news article on October 25 reveals that Harvard invests in a Chinese oil company, PetroChina, with ties to Sudan. In response, Benjamin B. Collins ’06 and Manav K. Bhatnagar ’06 start a divestment petition, online at www.harvarddivest.com, asking for the University to...
“Other students celebrate their nations by raising their flags on campus, and Palestinian students should be able to do so, too,” he said. If the administration does not reconsider it stance, he continued, Palestinian students would consider organizing a petition in protest.
The Kennedy School’s decision last year resulted in a petition to the dean in which 112 students said permitting the flag’s dispaly would symbolize the school’s diversity and its commitment to peace in the Middle East.