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When he announced the proposal last month to the Education Finance Council, a non-profit in his home state, McKeon said he knew that it would impose a hardship on many colleges...
...political analyst by any means, even less of a strategist, but I feel that I should express my utter revulsion at the present situation. The last straw was the excellent article that appeared this past Friday in The Crimson, entitled “Harvard Stands to Profit From War” (News, April...
Fundamentally, The Staff misunderstands the purpose of Harvard’s investments. The University is not a for-profit corporation. It should never hesitate from sacrificing financial profit so as not to compromise its moral integrity. If the University fails to impose limits on its greed, its hands will forever be stained with Crimson blood...
...course, it is unsavory to profit from war—and that is what Harvard and hundreds of thousands of other shareholders are doing this very instant. Similarly, each purchase of a Coke product funds a company that denies its African workers ample AIDS medication; each pair of Nike shoes funds third-world sweatshops. And while some have approached these problems through a lens of divestment, most activists have correctly taken far more innovative and engaging approaches to solving these problems. Simply put, although divestment from defense contractors is a feel-good move, it does nothing to realistically address...
These services cost little--about $20 a year per user. But only 21% of employees have ever tried out the service where it's available, according to the Profit Sharing/401(k) Council of America, a nonprofit group that promotes saving. "People just don't have the confidence to push forward without a real person walking them through it," says Richard Lindsey, a senior vice president at insurer AIG Valic. The firm is close to announcing that it will start providing financial planners to the faculty at Duke University later this year...