Word: acsr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have what is probably their last chance to force the Corporation to re-affirm the absolute ban of years past, a concession students won through their protests in 1978. The Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility meets at 7:30 p.m. to consider the case-by-case proposal: if the ACSR lends its support to that recommendation, the Corporation is virtually certain to approve it permanently. Only the loudest of objections by the ACSR has a chance to influence the Corporation and only the loudest of protests by students, in turn, seems likely to move the ACSR...
...ACSR's rare open meeting, slated for Emerson 105, affords students an opportunity to air their views and to convince Harvard to stick by its less objectionable stance. We hope all students will attend, make their voices head, and prove to Harvard and the nation that some people continue to care about injustice in South Africa. If they do not, the moral retrenchment of the University and the government can only get worse...
...open meeting of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR)--scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in Emerson 105--will be the first formal opportunity for students to present their views on whether the University should lift its automatic ban on leaving money in banks making loans to South Africa...
Student members of the ACSR said a large turnout at the open meeting might help sway alumni and faculty against the proposed change in policy...
...corporation evidently thought it could pull off a power play in rescinding the present South Africa policy without provoking resistance from within the ACSR or the Harvard community as a whole. Fortunately, objections by committee members and a large student demonstration convinced the entire ACSR membership to postpone a decision on the back policy well after an open meeting. In the past, only mass student protest forced the Harvard Corporation to do the right thing. Perhaps this time, reason will suffice. I doubt...