Word: acsr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...March the ACSR released a report saying that it would only make recommendations to Harvard on a case by case basis, although it urged a ban on investments in offending banks. This left students dissatisfied. A month later, the Corporation reacted to the ACSR's report with a report...
...paying taxes to the white regime there. The demonstrators vacated the building a week later after the University threatened to file criminal charges. While President Bok refused to bow to the students demands, he did offer them one concession the creation of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) a body composed of students, faculty, and alumni which would give the Corporation non binding recommendations on ethical issues it faces in managing Harvard's endowment...
...Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC), founded in November of that year. SASC managed to organize a tenuous coalition of disparate minority and political groups into the United Front, and led them through a series of mass rallies and demonstrations that culminated just before reading period SASC called on the ACSR to recommend to the Corporation that it sell stocks in banks making loans to the South African government, support shareholder resolutions calling for complete corporate withdrawal, and issue a clear, public statement on its investment policies...
...response the Corporation agreed to review investments on a case-by-case basis, but refused to accept the ACSR's suggestion that it divest from banks lending money directly to the apartheid regime...
Added Dental School ACSR representative Jack Dunlevy, "Revolution is inevitable there anyway...