Word: acsr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee wants to look into questions raised last December by Richard Wilson, professor of Physics, regarding the safety standards of nuclear reactors built by G.E. and Westinghouse, said Stanley S. Surrey, professor of law and ACSR chairman...
Initially the dissipation of student pressure and the natural tendency of students and faculty to assume that Harvard fulfills its responsibilities simply creating thoughtful committees may leave the ACSR less impetus to expand its activities on behalf of corporate responsibility...
Last year, it seemed tenable to argue that the establishment of bureaucratic mechanisms for considering shareholder issues would dissipate what would otherwise be heated student and faculty debate. It seems this year--given the relative inactivity even of black activist groups--that only the ACSR and IRRC have made regular discussion of proxy issues at Harvard likely...
...Corporation votes next week on the ACSR's Phillips recommendation, the way the ACSR handles the Exxon issue, and the kinds of tasks the ACSR sets for itself when the pressure of other people's proxy resolutions is off will reveal more about the ACSR's potential as a progressive force. But whether investment policy can be changed to reflect the University's supposedly moral purposes, depends largely upon the intensity of independent political action--perhaps a more persistent kind of political action than that which led to the ACSR's creation in the first place...
...shares of stock at the annual shareholders' meetings of the many corporations in which Harvard invests. But as of this Fall, President Bok has set up a special Corporation subcommittee to decide on controversial shareholder resolutions, with the advice of a student-faculty-alumni Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR...