Sunrise Amherst Responds to Divestment Announcement

Dear President Martin and Board of Trustees, We would first like to thank the Board for the March 31 announcement regarding fossil fuel divestment. We appreciate that the college is listening to and addressing the concerns that student organizers and the campus community have expressed regarding fossil fuels. Divestment is both a financial and moral statement, and we are thus grateful that Amherst is willing to take a public stance against the unethical and destructive fossil fuel industry. Th