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The town hall called for divestment from military weapons manufacturing and reinvestment into the New Haven community and Yale student life on Wednesday.
The protest, which saw over 200 attendees from over 25 organizations across Yale’s schools and New Haven on Feb. 16, moved from Beinecke Plaza to in front of the Humanities Quadrangle, where Yale Corporation trustees held a private meeting.
Amid student demands that Yale divest from weapons manufacturers, University President Peter Salovey told the News that he would not intervene in the current process by suggesting that the Yale Corporation divest. He called the current process by the Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility to revisit the University’s 2018 policy “robust” and said that he does not want to “prejudge the process.”
Editor’s note: This was the last dissent written by members of the Yale Daily News 2023-2024 Editorial Board. The Editorial Board an independent body […]