“I don’t know of any other schools that have established this,” he says. “We feel this is an appropriate response.”
Rush, however, says he will continue to work to persuade the university “to do the right thing and divest completely from the Sudan, and from companies doing business with the Sudan.”
To date, over 400,000 people have died as a result of the genocide in Sudan and 2.5 million have been internally displaced, according to the United Human Rights Council.
Last month, the Bush administration announced new sanctions against the country, aimed specifically at oil companies run by the Sudanese government.
The Divest Sudan campaign started in 2004 with a group of Harvard University students who discovered investments made by the university in companies operating in Sudan. Although the figures can be less than 1 percent of a university’s overall portfolio, other schools, including the entire University of California system, have joined the movement to stop investing in Darfur. In March, Howard University became the first historically Black college or university to divest in Sudan.
— By Shilpa Banerji
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