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...March, Adjah joined the cast of characters pressing Harvard to sell its stake in PetroChina, the Beijing-based oil firm with links to the Sudanese government. At a brainstorming session in Adams House, Adjah and 20 other undergraduates formed the United Front for Divestment, a group modeled after a similar student-led coalition that protested Harvard’s financial ties to South Africa’s apartheid government in the early 1980s...
Unbeknownst to the protesters, the CCSR’s three members already had voted to sell Harvard’s stake in PetroChina. And it fell to Adjah to announce the decision to the crowd...
...University—which at one point held at least a $7.2 million stake in the oil company PetroChina—sold all of its shares in the Beijing-based firm, which is intimately linked to the Khartoum regime...
Harvard’s stake in PetroChina first came under scrutiny last October, after The Crimson reported that the University had accumulated nearly $4 million worth of the stock...
...team has no time off, sailing again Wednesday for the biggest prize at stake this week, the ICSA dinghy championship...