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Just as Sinopec fails to consider genocide sufficient reason to cease operations in Sudan, the company recently cemented a cozy oil and natural gas deal with Iran, a country whose determination to develop a nuclear weapons program threatens regional security—to say nothing of its sponsorship of terrorist organizations such as Hamas, Hezbollah and al Qaeda. The deal offers China access to Iran’s Yadavaran oilfield and a 30 year supply of liquefied natural...
...infringement of rights, no matter how small. In the 1980’s, students equated Harvard’s holdings in companies active in South Africa with university complicity in apartheid. Is the university not today, for the same reasons, complicit in the genocide in Sudan and the sponsorship of terrorism in states such as Iran...
...Philosophically here, we don’t like the professional/commercial approach to athletics,” Scalise said, when prompted to discuss the University’s position on corporate sponsorship of athletic teams. “You start to introduce money with these sponsorships—well now, winning teams get sponsored more than losing teams I think. Winning tennis players get sponsored. Losing ones don’t get the same endorsements. Does sponsorship create more of a win-at-all-costs mentality...
Though the selling of No. 14 jerseys does not fall under the umbrella of corporate sponsorship, there still appears to be some tension...
Gaffney said he sees a diverse political alliance coalescing around efforts to prod investors to cut their ties with Sudan. The coalition includes human rights activists, security hawks who highlight the Khartoum regime’s sponsorship of terrorism, and African American clergymen who are concerned by the regime’s targeting of Christians and dark-skinned Sudanese...