March 17, 2006

Brown U. Divests From Firms in Sudan

By KELLY FIELD

Following similar moves by Harvard, Stanford, and Yale Universities, and Amherst and Dartmouth Colleges, Brown University's governing board has agreed to divest its holdings from companies that do business with Sudan, where thousands of people have been killed in what has been called government-sanctioned genocide in the Darfur region.

In a written statement, Ruth J. Simmons, Brown's president, called the board's vote "a critically important and strong statement by the university