Word: acsr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eight new members this year join the ranks of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR), the 12-member group that advises the Corporation on ethical questions arising out of the University's stock holdings...
...ACSR, which has been at the center of the controversy over Harvard's South Africa-related investments, is made up in equal parts of students, faculty, and alumni...
...four continuing members of the ACSR are: Milton C. Weinstein, professor of policy and decision sciences in the School of Public Health; Theodore Chase '34, a retired lawyer; Ernest Monrad '51, of Northeast Investors Trust of Boston; and Joan Keenan '45 of the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company...
Harvard has its own 12-member Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) which serves basically the same role as Radcliffe's advisory committee. Although South Africa-related questions make up-only a small portion of the issues addressed by the ACSR, they have attracted the most attention...
Last spring, for the first time ever, a plurality of the ACSR--which is made up of four students, four faculty and four alumni voted to call on Harvard to divest its stock in companies which to business in South Africa. However President Bok and the four members of the governing Corporation's Committee on Sharcholder Responsibility prepared reports this fall attacking divestiture and defending Harvard's position of "constructive engagement." According to that theory, the best way to fight against the racist apartheid system is through pushing American companies--through proxies and "intensive dialogue"--to improve opportunities for Blacks...