Word: acsr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coming at the end of the inaugural year of Bok's machinery for achieving shareholder responsibility--a student-faculty-alumni ACSR, advising a four-member Corporation subcommittee--the announcement is nicely symbolic. For the shift in Harvard's shareholder policy, purportedly stemming from the creation of the ACSR and rooted in black students' occupation of Mass Hall last April, actually goes back to Bok's first year in office and therefore indirectly to an earlier militant action, the April 1969 seizure of University Hall that led to Harvard's greatest strike and hastened Pusey's departure...
...limited support Harvard has occasionally offered resolutions this year thus dates back to last Spring, before there was an ACSR or a Corporation subcommittee...
...though Mass Hall probably inspired the establishment of the ACSR and the subcommittee, both of them are in keeping with the Bok Administration's philosophy of institutionalizing protest--unlike the Pusey Administration, which ignored it on principle--without granting the protesters any real power...
...ACSR IS by no means a radical group. It includes more Boston businessmen than undergraduates. But it has shown itself to be relatively sympathetic to complaints about corporate activities. So some activists who credit Afro with having forced the University to take these issues seriously have channeled their energies this year into accepted, institutionalized lobbying activities--especially through the Student ACSR, a group of undergraduates chosen in House elections last Fall...
...true, as the ACSR said, that the criteria for judging resolutions "calling directly for withholding of corporate investment because of the nature or policies of the government of the particular country involved" require intense study. But it hardly requires intense study to recognize that Angolan independence, and not simply one company's committee, was the issue at the heart of the churches' resolution. The ACSR's statement obscures that issue and relegates to the background the very social and political problems which are the most in need of exploration...