Divestment efforts are making some progress

The movement calls for the divestment of College endowment funds from certain corporations in Sudan that do business with the Sudanese government and thus help support the genocide of black Africans. Students leading the efforts are passionate about their cause. “Divestment was the most effective way to combat the genocide,” said Irwin. “Raising money is a great thing, but it can be very indirect. We can use the fact that we go to Amherst to make some change come out of that.” The students lea