Word: acsr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Advisory Committee to Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) yesterday formed a special four-man subcommittee to draw up a preliminary position on Harvard investments in companies manufacturing nuclear weapons...
Nearly 150 people last week attended a rare open meeting of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) held to begin discussion on designing guidelines to aid the Corporation in voting on shareholders resolutions concerning nuclear...
During the wide-ranging and occasionally unfocused two and-a-half hour public hearing at the Science Center, 11 ACSR members listened to speakers discuss topics such as whether Harvard should profit from nuclear-weapons, or production, the merits of a freeze in the building of nuclear weapons, or whether the University should consider shareholder morality...
...issue at the open meeting of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) will be Harvard's millions of dollars of investments in companies that make nuclear weapons or parts of nuclear weapons. The University owns more than $20 million of General Electric stock, almost $5 million of Du. Pont stock, and about $20 million of AT&T stock, among other nuclear holdings, according to the most recent financial report...
Nuclear policy is the issue of the day, affecting all our lives, overawing even other undisputably worthy subjects like South Africa. Whichever way they go on the complicated question of nuclear investments, you have to be glad the Corporation and the ACSR are finally giving it its due attention. It's an outstanding example to present this often esoteric policy debate in a unique way to the Harvard community...