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Landes, however, said the debate has gonebeyond professional and rational discussion.
THE experience of recent weeks has convinced me that traditional divestment protests will never change Harvard's investment policies. We have tried rational argument. We have tried massive expressions of student opinion. None of these has worked.
We on the committee had planned to present Bok with a list of student signatures on a petition supporting divestment. As we talked, Bok noticed the petition and told us that he would not care even if we had 6000 students' signatures on a petition. Only rational arguments, he said...
He continued by saying that we did not have any rational justification for divestment, citing the 1986 council report on divestment as an example of the type of well thought-out position that current activists lack.
"I believe that moral judgments requirerational arguments," Bok said. "I would considerit quite wrong and probably illegal to makeimportant decisions involving Harvard's financeson the basis of 'non-rational' judgments."