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...University has been asked by the Arkansas Community Organization for Reform Now (ACORN) to undertake such an investigation, to back the request for a deposit fund, and to intervene with ACORN in hearings before the Arkansas Public Service Commission...
Harvard's 561,000 shares make it the largest stockholder, but the University's holdings represent only 2 per cent of the stock. An Arkansas organizing group known as Arkansas Community Organization for Reform Now (ACORN) has asked Harvard to send a team of experts to study the power plant. The University's Subcommittee of Corporate Responsibility has consented to consider the proposal...
...ACORN, for better or worse, is not just a group of hepped-up environmentalists hell-bent on saving the beauty that is Arkansas. The group describes itself as a state-wide collective of middle-and low-income families concerned with the "preservation and enhancement of the quality of life" in Arkansas. Actually, ACORN is a group of 35 different community organizations with 35 different problems. The environment is a concern for each group in the same way breathing is a concern for human beings: it's a given...
Harvard might decide to ignore ACORN's appeal for help, but that course of action is the least likely. The University has three other choices. It could bring direct pressure, as Middle South's largest stockholder, on the utility to install environmental safeguards. If the utility refuses to comply with Harvard's request, the University could dump all 561,000 shares of its stock onto the market, a move which might unnerve Middle South's board of directors...
...University has only one choice left. It should accept ACORN's invitation to send a team of experts down to Arkansas and meet with the farmers who will be affected by the power plant...