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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 Volume 134, Issue 19 2 March 11 I 2008 Tuesday, March 11, 2008 Volume 134, Issue 19 2 March 11 I 2008 . (I lDSJ e 2 News 6 Who's who in Newark 12 Editorial 13 Opinion 17 Mosaic 21 Fashion Forward 26 Classifieds· 28 Sports THE REVIEW/Jenny Lin Students congratulate the winners of the Dancing with the Dark Arts competition last ~aturday. 28 Sport? Commentary web exclJJsives Check out these articles and more on udreview.com • FASHION FORWARD COLUMNIST LARISSA CRUZ HITS NEWARK'S STREETS TO HIGHLIGHT THE LATEST FASHIONS ON HER BLOG, I CAN DRESS MYSELF THE REVIEW/Steven Gold THE REVIEW/Steven Gold Former Delaware football players Joe Fiacco Students talk with Paul Rusesabagina, the inspiration and Omar Cuff chat at Pro Day last Thursday. behind the film "Hotel Rwanda," on Thursday night. The Review is published once weekly every Tuesday of the school year, except Editor in Chief Administrative News Editor Managing Sports Editors during Winter and Summer Sessions. An exclusive, online edition is published every Wesley Case Jennifer Hayes Kevin Mack:ie~icz, Michael LoRe Friday. Our main office is1ocated at 250 Perkins Student Center, Newark, DE 19716. Executive Editor City News Editor Sports Editors Sarah Lipman Josh Shannon Greg Arent, Seif Hussain If you have questions about advertising or news content, see the listings below. National/State News Editor I Editorial Editors ·Brian Anderson Copy Editors Jessica Lapointe, Jeff Ruoss News Features Editor Sarah Esralew, Elisa Lala, Mike Pina, Emily Riley, Copy Desk Chiefs Sara Wahlberg Caitlin Wolters, Maria Zinszer Display Advertising (302) 831-1398 . 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March 11. 2008 3 Students STAND up to UD's divestment policy RSO questions university's commfttment to end genocldes BY HALEY MARKS Hilary Jampel, president of STAND said Staff Reporter efforts by the group to propose a plan of Ongoing attempts to bring a plan of divestment to the university began one year Sudan divestment to the university have been ago. met with resistance, according to STAND, the "We decided last Spring Semester to student anti-genocide coalition on campus. start a divestment campaign," Jampel said. Sudan divestment is a global effort "We didn't know 100 percent what divest­ which takes invested funds out of foreign ment was, but it was becoming popular. Once companies working with the Sudanese gov­ we started working with the state it then ernment in an attempt to drain the money turned into 'All of these universities have being used for the Darfur genocide at its divested, why haven't we?' " sources. With divestment already being Mti­ Jennifer Hano, STAND divestment chair, lized by 59 universities, 23 states and 16 said soon after the decision to bring a plan of cities, STAND members are asking why the divestment to the university, she began con­ university has not yet followed suit. tacting university administrators. Max Croes, advocacy associate of the "It didn't look like we were getting any­ Sudan Divestment Task Force, an organiza­ where," Hano said. tion that supports targeted divestment plans After numerous e-mail messages sent throughout the United States and Europe, said back and forth to the university's chief invest­ the point behind divestment is to pressure the ment officer, Mark Stalnecker, Hano said she Sudanese government to end· the genocide in felt discouraged. Darfur. "It was frustrating because it looked as if "The number one way that we do that is they didn't care about an issue that was very through economic ties," Croes said. important to a lot of their students," she said. He said the Sudanese government itself Hano said she was told it was not in the is a global anomaly, in that it has a debt which university's interest to disclose financial exceeds its Gross Domestic Product. information with students. After numerous Courtesy of Nicolas Rost, UNHCR- http://www.flickr.com/photos/hdptcar/787732907 Croes said that because Sudan is inca­ failed attempts at setting up a meeting, Hano Students in the organization STAND are pushing the university to adapt a divest­ pable of producing domestic capital, it is said she spoke with Stalnecker outside of his ment policy to help end genocide in Darfur. almost solely reliant on foreign companies to office. ble impact on the university's public image. Sudanese government, according to Jampell provide it with funds in exchange for the use "It eventually led up to me personally "No university wants to be seen as and Hano, they have found support from their of their natural resources. Out of the money handing him the paper with the black-listed investing in regimes responsible for geno­ peers. gained from foreign investments, he said companies, and him pretty much dismissing cide," Jenkins said. The Student Government Association approximately 70 percent goes to military it," she said. Executive Vice President and Treasurer, passed a resolution on March 3, supporting expenditures being used in Darfur, a southern At press time, Stalnecker was unavail­ Scott Douglass said the university's current divestment at the university. SGA resolution region of Sudan. able to be reached for comment due to an out­ stance on Sudan divestment is one of "non­ SR-2008-02: Divestment of UD's endow­ "The answer to breaking those economic of-town business trip. involvement." ment fund from Sudan, was passed by the stu­ ties is placing pressure on those companies Journalism professor McKay Jenkins "The issue is, 'does disinvestment have dent senate at their first meeting of the semes­ and having them change their policies said the use of divestment plans to try to com­ an impact?' " Douglass said. "There are so ter. towards the Sudanese government and the bat genocide did not originate with efforts many investors. If Delaware decided not to The resolution reads, "We propose that genocide in Darfur, because of course without against Sudan. buy from companies that have direct invest­ the Delaware Undergraduate Student Senate those corporations the Sudanese government "In South Africa, divestment worked," ment [in Sudan] somebody else would. It's support and work towards the divestment of does not have a leg to stand on," Croes said. Jenkins said. "When I was in college, stu­ not a very effective way to have that kind of the University of Delaware's endowme.nt According to the Sudan Divestment Task dents all over the country pushed their impact." fund using the Sudan Divestment Task Force Web site, in December 2007 President schools to divest from companies doing busi­ In addition to claiming divestment was Force's. targeted divestment model." George W. Bush signed the Sudan ness with the apartheid government in South not effective in South Africa, he said that SGA Vjce President Teagan Gregory said Accountability and' Divestment Act into law, Africa, and it helped push that country to his­ because the university's endowment is not the first step in helping STAND institute a adding the United States to the list of 18 torical changes." directly invested in any companies but rather plan for the university divestment will be set­ countries that have initiated targeted Sudan He said divestment seems like an easy under the control of an investment manager, ting up the appropriate meetings, specifically divestment campaigns. and important moral decision with measura- the university is incapable of choosing where with the Board of Trustees, and subsequently funds are invested. finding out if the university's endowment is "The only way we can disinvest is if we invested in companies supporting Sudan. have control over the individual stock," Croes said the state of Delaware may Douglass said. "Our whole investment strate­ soon follow in the footsteps of the 22 states gy is we have no control over individual that have already divested. Sponsored by stocks. We have managers that are intermedi­ Democratic State Senator Harris McDowell, aries for us. They're picking a portfolio and proposed Senate Bill 9 requires the Board of they don't ask us permission. We don't get to Pension Trustees divest state-administered say we want this or more of that." pension funds from companies that have ties Political science Professor Kenneth to, or activities in, Sudan. Campbell, a member of the International In response to the fears of some pension Association of Genocide Scholars and author holders regarding losses due to divestment, of"Genocide and the Global Village," said he he said that no monetary losses will be felt. supports divestment and believes people may "We don't want teachers to be receiving be misinformed of the purpose of divestment less money because we are pursuing this pol­ tactics. icy," Croes said. "The answer is that most "They may very well be thinking in very states that have implemented this haven't had narrow economic terms," Campbell said. any significant losses." He said while divesting alone may not be Robyn Coventry, an advocate for both a purely effective means of forcing the state and university divestment and resident Sudanese government to change its practices, of Wilmington, said it is fundamentally when placed in a larger strategy composed of important that institutions begin adopting numerous tactics an accumulating effect will models of divestment.
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