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title: Harvard President offers less-than-convincing argument to not divest
date: 2014-03-05T16:38:14Z
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Several months ago, Drew Faust released [a letter](https://www.harvard.edu/president/fossil-fuels) explaining why Harvard would not divest. Here’s her defense when Harvard divestment activist Alli Welton confronted her on campus.



Courtesy of [Divest Harvard](https://divestharvard.com/)