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“As soon as the president contacts a department, his interests are known,” said Professor of Psychology Patrick Cavanagh, who signed the Harvard-MIT divestment petition and has criticized Summers in the past for equating the petition with anti-Semitism. “His influence...
Yale University alumni, faculty and students launched a petition on Tuesday demanding the University immediately divest from corporations that conduct business in Israel.
Government department chair Roderick MacFarquhar, who last spring worked on a faculty petition supporting the tunnel, said that he still hopes permission will come through—although he says he has backed off from lobbying for the tunnel.
...petition the congress for redress. "I want to ask the delegates who they represent, who elected them," he says. At the nearby train station, six uniformed police watch from under a banner that reads "Use a Brand New Outlook to Welcome the 16th Party Congress." With a shout, the petitioners tear off as the police approach, leaving behind their cooking pots and the fire they had built to cook cabbages and steamed buns...
“The unwillingness to seriously consider our petition on the merits of our arguments is what I find most disheartening,” he said.