Word: acsr
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LAST WEEK, seven members of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) attended an open forum--sponsored by the Institute of Politics--on whether Harvard should invest in the nuclear arms industry. The rambling discussion on the University's nuclear investments was certainly only a start in the complicated task of forming a comprehensive policy on the subject No conclusive answers were sought, none were provided...
...least one thing emerges certain from last week's forum And that is that the ACSR itself has to hold more open meetings...
Last night's discussion revealed the extremely complicated questions involved with investments in nuclear weapons and suggested the potential difficulty the Corporation and the ACSR will have in reaching a concession on the topic...
George M. Dallas '56, one of four alumni on the 12-member ACSR, said calling for divestiture from all companies involved in nuclear weapons may be an "oversimplification." Many companies, some of whom are only tangentially involved with the process comprise the sprawling weapons industry, he added...
...former ACSR member raised another potential problem with any nuclear weapons activism when he asked, "Is it fair to hold companies responsible for undertaking the production" of weapons approved by Congress asked Kenneth Propp, a third-year law student and one of the experts appearing last night...