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But Eric Reeves, a professor of English at Smith College and a leading coordinator of divestment efforts nationwide, wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson that “the exemption of Alcatel and Siemens by the students seems to me extremely ill-considered.”
As a Renaissance literature expert, Reeves might be an improbable figure to lead a broad-based human rights advocacy movement. And in recent months, Reeves has found even more unlikely allies in his quest: the three members of Harvard’s Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR).
“That was a huge statement,” Reeves says. “In Khartoum, it went off like a bomb....The first company to leave will put enormous pressure on all the others.”
Meanwhile, Reeves is receiving encouraging signs on another front.
For years, Reeves had been a “voice crying in the wilderness,” Collins says.