Word: pittston
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most political decisions of the year, the Undergraduate Council last night called on the University to divest from the strike-torn Pittston Coal Company and endorsed an international fast in memory of the students massacred in Beijing last spring...
...Pittston measure asked Harvard to initiate "immediate and full divestment" against the company, which has been embroiled in a labor dispute since last April...
Harvard owns about 310,000 shares, or roughly 1 percent, of the corporation's stock, making it the 19th largest shareholder. Also, Robert G. Stone '45, who sits on Harvard's seven-member Corporation, is on the Pittston board of directors...
...amendment asking Harvard to "clearly define the University's stance on in its involvement in the Pittston Company," instead of urging divestment, was defeated...
Harvard's Bad Boy: Activists supporting the coal miners striking against the Connecticut-based Pittston Company have no doubt been frustrated with their recent attempts to gain the attention of Robert G. Stone '45, a member of the Pittston Board of Directors and the Harvard Corporation. So when the protested outside a Corporation meeting at 17 Quincy St. this Monday, for the third time this fall, they tried a new approach. They gave him a present--a symbolic bag of coal--to remind him that he has been "a very...