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Among the issues facing Harvard, few are as important—or as longstanding—as how the University should deal with ethically questionable investments. Unfortunately, Harvard employs an antiquated and ad hoc system under which the University profits from injustice. Harvard must establish standards that allow potentially dangerous investments to be pre-screened so that divestment does not have to be used as a last resort...
While Harvard has a long tradition of morally responsible investing decisions—including its decisions to divest from Angola’s oil industry, apartheid South Africa, and tobacco stock—all these decisions were made on an ad hoc basis. This “Bok system” has several problems. First, the “exceptional circumstances” criteria for divestment forces the ethical responsibility debate to be rehashed from scratch each time a questionable investment is discovered in Harvard’s portfolio. Second, the current system means that reviews often do not occur...
...consequence of last year’s loss, Harvard had to place an ad in the Yale Daily News, congratulating the Bulldogs on their victory. This year the stakes are perhaps even higher—the losing school’s dean must don the victorious school’s apparel for a photo, also likely to run in the paper. But Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 wrote in an e-mail that he is not worried that he will have to display the Bulldogs’ colors...
With no shortage of ad-hoc advocacy on the Harvard campus, concerned students have organized a new group to give students real-world experience in defending human rights. The Harvard College Student Advocates for Human Rights group is not yet recognized by the university but already boasts a membership of fifty undergraduates who wanted to respond to frustrations over an absence of “meaningful” human rights work at Harvard, according to co-founders Tamar Ayrikyan ’07 and Caitlan L. McLoon ’07. Modeled after the Harvard Law School (HLS) Student Advocates...
...addition to the Capitol Hill protest, five mainline Christian denominations issued a joint-statement, and the National Catholic Rural Life Conference launched an ad-campaign asking Christians to lobby against the bill. Despite all of this opposition from a diverse array of religious groups, many self-declared Christian politicians went ahead and voted for this bill, showing that they were at best misguided in their faith and at worse disingenuous...