Word: acsr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...move to maintain undergraduate membership on the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) came after months during which council members have said President Derek C. Bok has not done enough to curb his influence over the selection of committee members...
Last spring, the council voted to withdraw its representative to the ACSR after December 1 unless Bok acted to make the body's selection more democratic...
...recently released review of the ACSR by an ad hoc committee of the Board of Overseers, Harvard's secondary governing body, echoed Bok's views. The report, prompted in part by Undergraduate Council criticism, substantially supported the ACSR's design and praised its effectiveness...
Theodore Chase '34, a former alumni member of the ACSR and an author of the Overseer report, said yesterday that the council's criticism of Bok is "silly. The president does not make appointments himself, but without exception approves the appointments of students, faculty and alumni. The president must reserve power over appointments; what else is a president...
...Certainly the council's [with-drawal] will not reform the ACSR, and it will just go on without an undergraduate representative," said Chase