Smith Students for Justice in Palestine (SSJP) is continuing to call for Smith College to divest its endowment from companies SSJP says are complicit in and associated with Israel’s destructive and violent campaign in Gaza.
At 4:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 27, SSJP hosted a rally on Chapin Lawn that marched to the Alumni House, where demonstrators called on the Board of Trustees to divest and instead invest in Smith workers.
In an Oct. 18 email to the Smith Community, President Kathleen McCartney announced that the Smith College Board of Trustees voted in its October meeting to “direct Investure, the college’s outsourced endowment management firm, to exclude from the Smith College endowment all future investments with fossil fuel-specific managers” and also voted to enact a “phaseout of all current investments with fossil fuel-specific managers in the Smith College endowment.”
Emily Kowalik ’18 Assistant Opinions Editor Students from Divest Smith College participated in a sit-in at the University of Massachusetts Amherst last week to…
