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...Public Service Commission will meet with the Arkansas Community Organization for Reform Now (ACORN), the community group that asked for Harvard's help last fall in opposing the plant, on May 1. All written testimony on the plant is due at the Public Service Commission on June 1, and the hearings--which could well last up to two months--will begin about June...
...Public Service Commission's newly-announced deadlines apparently came as a surprise to the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, and the ACSR is now trying to speed up its discussion on what to do about ACORN's request...
...obvious solutions sometimes have obvious things wrong with them. For one thing, the ACSR showed its skepticism of study committees last year, opposing activist demands that several companies set them up because they'd dilute management's responsibility. Besides, a study committee was not only part of what ACORN was asking for--not necessarily the ideal way to maintain the Harvard self-image of impartiality--but might itself constitute a precedent besides. If ACORN could ask Harvard to set up a study committee, then so could Concerned Citizens United down in Kansas and Robert Head in Louisiana and anybody else...
...some professors interested in environmental issues, would probably have been willing to establish a study committee anyway. But Surrey, probably with the support of a majority of the ACSR, worked out a compromise, which he introduced towards the end of a relatively stormy meeting, reportedly sparking some discontent among ACORN sympathizers who felt they'd been outmaneuvered. Harvard wouldn't send a study group to Arkansas, the ACSR decided--instead, interested Harvard professors would read AP&L's 1000-page environmental impact statement and other reports on the plant and comment on their conclusions...
...ONLY TROUBLE with this approach was that it meant Harvard had to rely on its experts. If they questioned the AP&L report's conclusions, when Harvard had already turned down ACORN's request for a study committee out in the field, Harvard would be hard put to ignore their recommendation...