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...October, the Student Government Association at Morehouse, the nation’s oldest liberal arts historically black college (and Mr. Bennett’s alma mater), formally requested for their institution’s endowment to divest from companies doing business in Iran’s energy sector. Richard Fulton, a student signatory to the letter, declared in an editorial that the motivation behind the letter was “in order for the voices and concerns of Morehouse students to have real resonance in the various human rights and national security debates of our time…Iran?...
...should be inspired by the students at Morehouse to follow suit here at Harvard. The Harvard Corporation has acquiesced to student pressure to divest in the past. In 1989, a campaign of three students ultimately led Harvard to divest from tobacco companies. In 2005, Harvard became the first university in the country to divest from Sudan, choosing to sell its holdings in PetroChina after two undergraduate students started an online divestment petition...
During the question and answer segment of the talk, Akosua K. Goode, a second year Law School student, asked Jealous what the biggest threat is to the continued existence of the NAACP...
...economics graduate student who asked to remain anonymous said that a 3 percent increase in his stipend would translate into an extra $600. He said that the additional support will help with groceries, but he was less confident in its ability to draw new students...
Boston University graduate student Joel Tenenbaum will pay a $675,000 fine to the Recording Industry Association of America for illegally sharing music online unless a court rules to reduce the fine in a subsequent trial...