Harvard Embattled as Students, Faculty, & Alumni Join Forces for Divestment

Jon Queally @ Common Dreams - The administration of one of the world's most elite higher education institutions has called the intensified tactics of its students a form of "coercive" protest and lawyers representing Harvard University will be in a court room on Friday as they try to persuade a judge to throw out a lawsuit which is part of the same effort: a push to get the Ivy League school to divest its $36 billion endowment from the fossil fuel industry.  Read more.