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As a result, I have become the environmental movement's dream convert. I pore over news reports of the latest oil-company atrocity; I hector my family about their oversize vehicles; I buy only organic milk and eggs laid by vegetarian, cage-free, anxiety-free chickens; and I'm an...
But Harvard’s announcement on Monday amounted to an “incomplete action,” said Manav K. Bhatnagar ’06, organizer of an online divestment petition that garnered several hundred signatures from students and faculty.
Bhatnagar said he and fellow petition organizer Benjamin B. Collins ’06 specifically mentioned Sinopec as a target for divestment in a February meeting with the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR), the 12-member panel of students, faculty, and alumni that advises the Corporation on ethical issues...
“It is a distortion of the concept of ‘balance’ to give publicity and legitimacy to Irving and his proven falsehoods,” petition signatory and Sociology Department Chair Mary C. Waters wrote in an e-mail.
Ben B. Collins ’06 and Manav K. Bhatnagar ’06 started an online petition for divestment after reading an article in The Crimson about Harvard’s investment in PetroChina, said Collins. Approximately 1000 students, faculty, alumni and staff have signed the petition, said...