Harvard Students Sue University Officials Over School's Investment Ties to Prisons

CNN.com ^ | February 21, 2020 | Ganesh Setty

[CheshireTheCat]

Five Harvard students are suing university officials over Harvard's investments in what they call the "prison-industrial complex."

The students are accusing the university's president, a senior fellow of Harvard Corporation, and Harvard's endowment manager, Harvard Management Company (HMC), of a "violation of fiduciary duty and breach of the Harvard charter."

...Unlike the students in 2014, whose case was initially dismissed because the judge said the plaintiffs lacked standing, the new crop of students say that they now have standing because they are also donors to Harvard.

[CheshireTheCat]

I am sure if students at Harvard looked hard enough they could find many investments Harvard has with which they disagree. Maybe it would be easier if Harvard just spent all of its endowment on scholarships for inner city kids, then it would not have to worry about angering students and alumni.

[rktman]

How about they just stop investing in anything. That should work out well. Besides, if any of the demodrones were to win in Nov everybody will be working for free. I mean how you gonna pay anyone if ‘higher’ education is no cost to anyone?

[PIF]

likely that some or all of the Harvard grads doing time had appreciated the program -

[stanne]

Prisons?
Wait’ll they find out what Harvard is really investing in.

[AndyJackson]

yeah. Private prisons. A model of free enterprise /s/

It's part of privatizing government. It's what helped make the swamp what it is.

[cdcdawg]

Well, Harvard, these students and their lawsuit are the product of ... Harvard. Enjoy that.

[AndyJackson]

It’s like the stupidity of releasing Blagojevich after only 8 years. There was good money to be had keeping him locked up at public expense. /s/

[Skywise]

So they donated KNOWING that Harvard invested in prisons and now they’re suing to stop because that means they have “standing”?

BS.

The BEST award they can get is their donations returned.
A donation, by definition, does not entitle the donor to any say into the affairs of the school unless previously agreed upon!

And these students went to Harvard? That’s the ultimate reflection on the school.

[Skywise]

You’d think the activists would figure out it’d be in their best interests to make their own privatized prisons that bestowed the virtues of socialist theories to turn out model citizens in a genteel environment rather than suing the school?

nah nah - socialists only know how to take and destroy.

[Da Coyote]

Evidently the Harvard faculty’s dictionary lacks the following words:
Kick
their
dumb
little
asses
out

[unixfox]

I would be willing to guess that Hawvud has investments in oil & gas. If that ever gets out the students will have an even bigger hissy fit.

[Bob434]

Hey- the new mafia racket- STUDENTS- who shake down colleges over their associations with icky businesses they, the students, don’t like

[DoughtyOne]

Those children have no standing.

P E R I O D !

[Mastador1]

So they donated KNOWING that Harvard invested in prisons and now they’re suing to stop because that means they have “standing”?

More likely the only reason they donated was so that they could claim standing so they could sue. Five whole students? this is infinitesimal percentage of current and past students and should be thrown out as a nuisance suit........and make them pay for Harvard's legal costs.

[Skywise]

Right, that’s what the article says, but they DONATED the money already knowing Harvard invests in privatized prisons so what could they be suing about? That they didn’t know their money would be used for private prisons?
That their money shouldn’t be used for private prisons? Like I said, it’s a DONATION (gift) and doesn’t include any rights over how Harvard spends the money unless previously agreed upon.
Absolutely it’s a nuisance suit.