Word: acsr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Farber said that because the Administration has left the choice of ACSR members to other people it was impossible for him to predict changes in the committee's political composition...
...Last year both undergraduates were white males, for example," he said. "It's possible the Student ACSR will do the same thing this year, and it's possible they'll choose women or minority-group members...
...Center concentrated on requests from its members, Farber said. The ACSR and other Center members asked for information on extending power to ordinary shareholders (a favorite theme of shareholder resolutions), formulating guidelines for investment in countries with "objectionable" governments ("as you know," Farber said, "there are very many of these"), and the safety or lack of it at Westinghouse's and General Electric's nuclear reactors (an issue brought to the ACSR's attention last Spring by Richard Wilson, professor of Physics...
...addition, Farber said, the Center is completing a report on strip mining. Harvard students and other workers for Campaign Continental, an association formed by former Ralph Nader staffers and people from the Miners for Democracy caucus in the United Mine Workers, brought issues related to strip mining before the ACSR last Spring. The issue arose when shareholders in the Continental Oil Company asked for information on the surprisingly high accident rate in the company's Appalachian coal mines...
...NUMBER of precedents emerged from last Spring's stock debates, and it is unlikely that Harvard will break from them quickly, since both the ACSR--chaired by Stanley S. Surrey, Smith Professor of Law-- and the Corporation subcommittee showed interest in preserving continuity in University policy...