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When it comes to university endowment funds, investments in oil, natural gas and coal have become today’s version of the anti-apartheid divestment movement of the 1980s.

Queen’s University is the latest Canadian post-secondary institution to catch divestment fever; joined recently week by the United Church of Canada.

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As a Class of 1991 alumna from the School of Business, a donor, primarily as a result of benefiting from the oil and gas sector, and with a child now attending Queen’s, this is very disappointing.

It appears the Queen’s student body fell victim to the propaganda of organizations such as 350.org when it held a referendum on the issue earlier this year. Less than one-third of the student body voted, but nonetheless the resolution passed with 73.5 per cent approval. As a result, a petition was submitted to the Queen’s board of governors requesting the university divest its holdings of energy companies.