Word: acsr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mood on campus" was nowhere in sight Wednesday, as about 30 students braved Arctic temperatures to picket the Faculty Club, where the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) was discussing Harvard's investments in banks operating in South Africa...
While the ACSR was warm and toasty inside the building, the protesters marched around outside, chanting slogans and carrying signs denouncing apartheid and Harvard's role in that racist system...
...Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC), which organized the demonstration, plans to picket the ACSR's meetings every week to keep ACSR members aware that students are watching them with great interest, a spokesman for the group said this week...
Henry B. Reiling, chairman of the ACSR and professor of Business Administration, said yesterday he was glad to see the picketers. "We're basically working for the same thing, and all these students out here on such a cold day shows significant interest on this issue," he said...
...Hanover stock in question, told the University last week it was selling those particular stocks as part of a $1.6 million changeover to investments with greater and faster growth potential. Walter M. Cabot '55, deputy treasurer of the University, relayed that information to the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR), but said at the same time that the sales stemmed from purely financial, and not political, motivations, though the sale has obvious political repercussions...