Word: abstentionism
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Hugh Calkins '45, chairman of the Corporation subcommittee, said yesterday that the subcommittee's disagreements with the ACSR had no special significance. The subcommittee's failure to follow the ACSR's advice follows its abstention last week on two ACSR-endorsed resolutions that called for information on two companies' political...
The subcommittee also called for legislation to force corporations and other large membership groups to disclose their political contributions, and it indicated it might reconsider its policy of abstention next year, provided activist groups call for disclosure by all large membership groups--such as labor unions and public-interest lobbyists...
But Harvard still faces the problem of not having any commonly accepted definition of "corporate social responsibility" to work with. The Austin Report argued against "joining forces with other large, tax-exempt organizations in policing the conduct of business corporations." Yet, it noted that "it is a truism in the...
Finally at 2:30 a.m., the Committee voted, 4-2, with one abstention, not to renew Frisoli's contract as Superintendent. This decision provoked a rash of small fires, false alarms and bomb scares in the Cambridge public schools the following day. Frisoli's supporters vowed that they would take...
The statement noted that "as athletes, we are not insensitive to these issues and feel that our participation in athletics does not excuse us from our obligation to society. Some individual have decided to refrain from competition today, while others choose to symbolize their discontent by means other than abstention...