Harvard University has become the third largest benefactor to Democrat candidate Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, it has been revealed.
According to the Boston Herald, academics at the school, where Obama was the first black president of the prestigious Harvard Law Review, had donated $501,489 as of August 31 this year.
Commenting on the decision to back Obama, Robert Brustein, who founded the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard said: “With me, it’s just the belief that this country has to be turned around.”
Earlier this month, a number of Obama’s former Harvard professors spoke about how they remember the potential future president and his wife from their law school days.
Meeting at a rally within the university’s law school, Professors Randall Kennedy and David Wilkins among others particularly discussed how Michelle Obama’s characteristics could be helping her husband’s presidential campaign now.
In other news, former secretary of state Colin Powell, a well-known Republican, has said he will support Barack Obama’s campaign for president, saying that he could “electrify the world.”
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