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The Amherst Student

Volume 152 • Issue 1

The Amherst Student

The Newspaper of Amherst College Since 1868

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Ben Walker '16

Organizer for the Green Amherst Project

Number of Articles: 1

First Article: March 24, 2015

Latest Article: March 24, 2015

Letter to the Editor: Divest Nonetheless

By Ben Walker '16

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March 24, 2015

It’s been three years since the Green Amherst Project first asked the board of the trustees to divest Amherst’s $2.1 billion endowment from the coal industry. In that time, the divestment movement has expanded to over 300 universities and numerous religious institutions, foundations and cities; the list of organizations already divested includes institutions both large and small, ranging from Stanford University and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund to the town of Amherst, Massachusetts. The divestm

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