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Chad J. Hazlett, a Kennedy School student and organizer of the Harvard petition, said the Regents’ decision “means a lot” for the divestment effort here.
Hazlett said he predicted the student-led petition, posted online at harvarddivest.com, would continue to gain traction.
Statistics released by the organizers of this year’s petition showed that Leverett House led all upperclassman Houses in signatures and that 33 faculty members had lent their names to the effort.
Meanwhile, a student-led petition calling on Harvard to sell its holdings in Sudan-linked firms garnered its 1,000th signature this past weekend. That total is more than the roughly 800 names that a similar petition targeting Harvard’s holdings in PetroChina garnered last year. Harvard divested...
Harvard’s only tenured Sanskrit professor, Michael E. J. Witzel, received e-mails labelling him a “bastard” and calling for his death after he entered a debate over the portrayal of Hinduism in California textbooks earlier this year.In November, Witzel, the Wales professor...