Student Activists: Boston University Alumni Last Best Hope of Mankind

Student Activists:  Boston University Alumni Last Best Hope of Mankind

BOSTON — Student activists at Boston University, frustrated with being stonewalled by administrators as part of their quest to convince the school to divest from all endowment-related holdings in fossil fuels, appear to have adopted a new tactic.

The focus, according to a recent Facebook post, will now be on convincing wealthy alumni to withhold making donations to BU until the activists' demands are met.

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