Commit to divestment
And, if the University has indeed conducted some sort of review, or is somehow sure that none of its investments indirectly end up in Sudan, why can't it make that information available to the public?
We urge the University to make all the relevant information about its investment profile available for public inspection immediately. We also call on the board of trustees to vote as soon as possible for a comprehensive review of the University's investments, in order to ensure that none of them go to companies that do business in Sudan. This will require leadership, so we call on Board of Trustees President Pamela Flaherty to push for such a review.
It would also be prudent for the Student Council, as representatives of the student body, to take on Sudan divestment as one of its most pressing ethical causes and pressure the University - by building a coalition of student organizations and passing firmly worded resolutions - to review its investments thoroughly and transparently and, ultimately, divest from Sudan. This is an area in which the Council can take up an urgent ethical challenge and lobby the University on the students' behalf. It will take more than the pleas of this page to compel the University to action on this paradigmatic moral imperative of our generation.
More than a quarter of a million have died, still more are dying every day, and the University's money could be helping that happen. Action is the only answer and it must happen quickly. We urge the University to review its investments now, make that review transparent and, ultimately, divest from Sudan. If it does not, its woeful complacency will prove an egregious moral failing - one that will haunt us all for years.
We urge the University to make all the relevant information about its investment profile available for public inspection immediately. We also call on the board of trustees to vote as soon as possible for a comprehensive review of the University's investments, in order to ensure that none of them go to companies that do business in Sudan. This will require leadership, so we call on Board of Trustees President Pamela Flaherty to push for such a review.
It would also be prudent for the Student Council, as representatives of the student body, to take on Sudan divestment as one of its most pressing ethical causes and pressure the University - by building a coalition of student organizations and passing firmly worded resolutions - to review its investments thoroughly and transparently and, ultimately, divest from Sudan. This is an area in which the Council can take up an urgent ethical challenge and lobby the University on the students' behalf. It will take more than the pleas of this page to compel the University to action on this paradigmatic moral imperative of our generation.
More than a quarter of a million have died, still more are dying every day, and the University's money could be helping that happen. Action is the only answer and it must happen quickly. We urge the University to review its investments now, make that review transparent and, ultimately, divest from Sudan. If it does not, its woeful complacency will prove an egregious moral failing - one that will haunt us all for years.
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