By Casey Williams, Charlie Molthrop, Jacob Tobia and StudentNation
The Nation - January 25, 2014
Last October 4, a group of students clutching more than 2,000
petitions knocked on the door of the Duke University Board of Trustees
meeting and requested an audience. Burly security guards barred the door
on the order of vexed University President Richard Brodhead. Brodhead,
visibly nervous, tried to usher the students out, calling their presence
an “interruption.” Undeterred, the group resisted, asking for a chance
to present the proposal they had spent almost a year crafting. The
president, adamant in his refusal, returned to the meeting and shut the
door.
Despite the hostile reception, a modified version of the students’
proposal—which called for the overhaul of the university’s guidelines on
investment responsibility—had already found its way onto the board’s
agenda. On October 4, 2013, the trustees voted to adopt the new
guidelines, expanding the university’s investment oversight committee
and establishing a special fund within the endowment—a Social Choice
Fund—which will be invested only in prescreened, socially responsible
funds.
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