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...February, student activists turned the spotlight away from the Yard and toward conflict in Sudan. Calling their campaign Senior Gift Plus, they asked classmates to withhold donations to the annual fundraising drive until Harvard sold its shares in PetroChina, a Beijing-based oil firm with ties to the Sudanese government. In an unusual move, the Harvard Corporation agreed in April to divest...
...think that initially people may have had some questions” about whether to withhold donations, she said. “In the end people made the decision based on the merits of Senior Gift...
...Clearly, the divestment movement has not taken off in the way we hoped it might,” says Matthew W. Mahan ’05, a co-founder of Senior Gift Plus, whose members had pledged to withhold their graduation donations from the Harvard College Fund until the University cut its ties with PetroChina...
...that a crime has been committed: disclosure of the name of a CIA covert operative. If that is true, those who received the illegally leaked information are accessories to the crime. It is a person's civic duty to report a crime, and that duty overrides journalistic privilege. To withhold a source's identity is an abdication of civic responsibility...
Megan L. Peimer ’97 and Ezra W. Reese ’97 established an Alternative Senior Gift campaign, which asked students to withhold Senior Gift donations from the University and hold them in private accounts until Harvard hired more women and minorities as tenured Faculty...