Word: acsr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past, Harvard's Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility has considered the issue of the Soviet Union, both in terms of a general policy and on shareholder proxy resolutions voted on each spring by Harvard and other large investors, according to ACSR Secretary Jane W. Sherwin...
...said, however, that the ACSR and the Corporation, to which the body makes its recommendations, have regularly voted against any proxy resolutions which would require taking some sort of political stand on the country...
Undergraduate Council--Finance Comm. and Treasure Chair, Undergrad Rep. to ACSR. House Committee. Hillel Coordinating Council...
...action was an appropriate response to the Corporation's continued indifference to the concerns of a community dedicated to free and open discussion and pursuit of the truth. Unfortunately, there is no mechanism to ensure that students, faculty, alumni, and staff have input into the Corporation's decisions. The ACSR, the only institution related to the Corporation with any presense of representing community concerns, has served only as a lightning rod to deflect criticism from the Corporation itself. In such a situation--a situation where the rules are stacked against quiet, respectful debate--civil disobedience is an important...
...African investments when he will not even make policy changes or heed lobbies to do so at the University that is in his charge. I would urge Mr. Steiner and the rest of the governing boards to stop embarrassing themselves and, in turn, the University and to follow the ACSR's recommendation to divest. Samuel Sifton...