Word: acsr
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...SELL. Buy and Sell. Do not invest in imperialist countries. The ACSR, set up by President Bok to determine the University position on stock proxies, enters its second year. Seth Kupferberg helps wish the committee happy birthday on page...
Time has changed even the most sacrosanct of Harvard's policies, of course, and in some cases these decisions were far from unanimous to begin with (several of them represent overrulings of the ACSR). Some issues become more widely publicized with time; others--military contracting by corporations, for example--recede in public interest. Nevertheless, barring the unforeseen--another building occupation like the one in the Spring of 1972 which helped bring about Bok's new system, or the withdrawal of a large gift by a donor who deemed the University's policies as a shareholder unsatisfactory (this recently happened...
With interest in shareholder questions down considerably from the morning two Aprils ago when black students seized Mass Hall, the ACSR and the subcommittee will probably be operating pretty much on their...
...comment of a Student ACSR member last year, which was made when other members of the group berated him for not seeking the opinions of the students who elected him actively enough, seems typical...
Pressure from groups including (H-R Afro), the Harvard-Radcliffe Association of African and Afro-American Students, led to the establishment a year ago of the ACSR, or Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility. The group, which includes an undergraduate contingent called the Student ACSR, recommends to a corporation subcommittee how Harvard should vote its proxies on shareholder resolutions...