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...divest from companies that do business with the Khartoum regime. Universities and state pension plans frequently hold significant investments connected to Darfur, but once made aware of the investments, many investors have been shown to be willing or even eager to part with them. The state of Oregon and Stanford University, for example, have already divested, and legislation is pending in several other states. HDAG acts as a catalyst in this process, researching which companies merit divestment and which institutions have holdings in those companies. Passing this information to decision makers, students, and constituents incites action to divest, building Harvard?...
...tribute to Google’s soft-power in the liberal academic community—rare, if non-existent among most corporations—that they have the permission and goodwill to make the library collections of Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan available to academic cmomunities around the world. (As well as making, to a smaller but still significant extent, the Oxford and the New York Public Library available.) Already much trumpeted for speeding up global information access, the process of globalization would take a leap forward with this initiative, which involves the scanning and uploading of materials...
This season is also Erickson’s first year at Harvard, becoming the Crimson head coach following coaching stints at Stanford and Northwestern...
...Stanford spokesman Allen Acosta declined to comment on his university’s fundraising results, as Stanford’s fiscal year ends on August 31 rather than June 30, when Harvard’s ends. Stanford plans to announce its results in early to mid-October, he said...
Harvard also has a young coaching staff, as former head coach Tim Wheaton became an Assistant Director of Athletics during the offseason. Erickson, 29, hails from Northwestern and formerly held coaching positions at Stanford and Cal. She brought aboard Mike Calise—a 1997 graduate of Boston College who has held coaching positions at Arizona State and Princeton—as her top assistant and recruiting coordinator and also helped hire Kristin DePlatchett, a star player who graduated from North Carolina in 2002, to work with the goalies...