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...from Sudan, and we, the same students who celebrated Harvard’s divestment in front of Loeb House last spring, are calling on our University to reclaim its leadership in the movement for ethical investment,” the statement stated. Yale joined colleges and universities such as Stanford, Amherst, and Dartmouth in divesting from firms supporting the Sudanese government, including Sinopec, last week. “No matter what ethical guidelines you want to create, these kinds of stocks have to be omitted,” Collins said at the organizational meeting yesterday. He said that the question...
Nearly all states have a statute that allows judges to jail material witnesses to major crimes. "Somewhere in the deep core of American law is the notion that judges have a right to aggressively enforce court orders," says Stanford University law professor Robert Weisberg. "Witnesses are, in that sense, like defendants. People may think that one is the good guy and the other is the bad guy, but they both need to be in court for the legal system to work." Even if the jailed witness changes testimony on the stand--and prosecutor Goldberg says she can't remember...
...Sinopec, which is involved in Sudan in the same way as PetroChina, to remain in Harvard’s portfolio—since the University has taken a moral stance against genocide in Sudan, it behooves them to be consistent. Other schools that divested from PetroChina, like Yale, Stanford, and Amherst, recognized the similarities and also divested from Sinopec...
...time-honored principles that Yale observes as an ethical institutional investor have guided us to take this strong action,” Yale President Richard C. Levin said in a statement.Yale’s announcement follows similar moves last year by colleges and universities such as Stanford, Amherst, and Dartmouth. Harvard announced this past April that it would divest from PetroChina, a subsidiary of the Chinese National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), after pressure from students and some faculty members. But Harvard continues to hold a stake in a second Beijing-based oil company, Sinopec, which also does business in Sudan.PetroChina...
...sometimes halting efforts to enhance the student learning experience through the use of technology. The audio recordings of Quantitative Reasoning 48, “Bits,” available free in Apple’s iTunes library, join similar offerings from a number of other universities, including Stanford University, which in October became the first university to begin offering course recordings through iTunes. As educational technology ventures into yet another medium, it is an opportune moment to reflect on the value of lecture recordings, both audio and video, to students. While recording lectures can be an expensive undertaking...