I’m not a big fan of divestment, but I must say that I’m quietly cheering on these students who are getting their universities to shed their endowment assets in companies that do business with the Sudanese perpetrators of genocide in Darfur. The activists will always be with us. Some protest Coke. Others protest Sudan. This isn’t a close call. The NYT has a summary of the anti-Sudan effort:

At least seven universities have gotten rid of some of their assets, including the 10-campus University of California system, Harvard, Yale, Stanford and Brown. Divestment campaigns are under way at several other universities, including the University of Maryland, Indiana University and the University of Virginia.