Commit to divestment
Reporting about the SGA, not a record of it: The Johns Hopkins News-Letter published this and the SGA did not write it, file it, or approve it. The archive holds it because the article itself uses the phrase “student council”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article covers calls for the University to review its investments and divest from Sudan.
- The News-Letter reported that Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Brown, Dartmouth and 50 other universities had divested from Sudan.
- The paper reported that more than a quarter of a million people had been killed in Darfur.
- The article says Chief Investment Officer Katryn Crecelius told the News-Letter, "None of our managers is invested in companies in Sudan, whether in our name or in the fund's name."
- The reporter writes that University officials had not "made sure" that no investments went to Sudan, while the Sudan Divestment Task Force said indirect links were more than likely.
- The article urged the University to disclose its investments, called for a board-approved review, and asked the Student Council to pressure the University to review its investments and divest.