Harvard students to file lawsuit demanding school pull investments from prisons.
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With that in mind, the five plaintiffs in this latest lawsuit are taking a new tack: They're more than just students — all of them have donated money to the school in the past year. "Our standing now is based on the premise that we're donors to the university," Xitlalli Alvarez, a plaintiff and a doctoral student in anthropology, said.The Harvard Management Company referred questions Tuesday to the school, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the lawsuit.
A spokesman for university President Lawrence S. Bacow, who is named in the suit, told NBC News last year that Bacow has"appreciated the opportunity to meet with advocates for prison divestment" and offered to arrange a meeting for them with the Harvard committee that makes endowment decisions. Such a meeting took place in October and included Bacow, according to the Harvard Prison Divestment Campaign. But the students said the committee wouldn't commit to providing an"exposure assessment" of the endowment's investments in prison-related companies and declined to say whether divestment was even on the table.
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