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Board of Trustees meet after student protests

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From Feb. 27 to Feb. 29, the Mount Holyoke College Board of Trustees met in New York City for their annual spring Board meeting. Following this meeting, the Trustees scheduled a phone call for March 2 between the Mount Holyoke Climate Justice Coalition (CJC) and the majority of the Board’s Investment Committee (IC) to discuss Mount Holyoke’s current investments in the fossil fuel industry.

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Students rally to support fossil fuel divestment

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“People are going to rise like the water, we’re going to shut this crisis down. I hear the voice of my great-granddaughter saying, ‘keep it in the ground,’” rang through the halls of Blanchard Community Center as students sang and chanted. On Feb. 13 at 12:15 p.m., over 300 students walked out of their classes to demand that Mount Holyoke College divest from fossil fuels.

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Smith College votes in favor of fossil fuel divestment

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Smith College votes in favor of fossil fuel divestment

Smith College recently committed to completely divest from the fossil fuel industry in the next 15 years, a major step towards sustainability on their campus. 

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Board of trustees confronted with apartheid past

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BY ABBY BAKER '19

Evidence from the Mount Holyoke Climate Justice Coalition suggests that after briefly divesting from companies that did business with apartheid South Africa in 1991 as the result of student activism, Mount Holyoke may have subsequently and discretely reinvested.

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