Does anyone know if the University of Vermont is the first university that has
done this?
And can the federally-funded universities - or better yet, the 50 states
themselves - divest themselves from a federal government that doesn't just make
or distribute such weapons, but actually USES them on innocents?
Cathy Garger
The budget committee also endorsed a proposal that UVM divest endowment funds
from companies that make or distribute two controversial arms systems, cluster
bombs and weapons that use depleted uranium.
www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20090515/NEWS02/90515018/1007/RSS02
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