While I applaud the stated goal of their request for feedback, I got'ta question their track record and who will really benefit and at what cost. Just try to link to their 1999 Record of Investments, as reported by Google: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/finance/report99/ fin_statements11.html What do they have to hide?
[The following excerpted from their respective sites:] ...In some cases, American universities - which happily disinvested in tobacco companies - have now taken the step of blocking all student access to their records of investment... http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=344510 The investment office no longer releases any information about Columbias holdings in specific corporations. Today, Columbia financial officers attest that Columbia employs no ethical investment policy and allows its money managers to give Columbias votes to corporate management on all shareholder resolutions. Columbia is falling behindparallel institutions including Cornell, Vassar, and Bryn Mawr, and Wesleyan release their investment portfolios. ...We can safely conclude, that were the University community to review Columbias proxy voting records for the eight hundred or so corporations in which the University was invested last year, the conscience of the University community, from trustees to first-years, would all have been shocked for the following four reasons: http://www.barnard.columbia.edu/admiss/centsch/projects/slack/senate.htm jr -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
