Word: acsr
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Events leading up to the march included the signing of a campus-wide divestment petition by more than 3,000, myriad meetings of the Harvard Corporation’s Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR), two open hearings and several Corporation meetings...
This Mass. Hall takeover marked the opening tussle in the fight for divestment and led to the creation of ACSR, a committee composed of four students, four faculty members and four alumni whose purpose was to advise the Corporation on the social and political implications of its investment policies...
...proposal was channeled through ACSR, which was charged with making a recommendation to the Corporation as to the action it should take on its investments in South Africa...
...ACSR formulated its official statement to the Corporation, SASC rallied other student groups, House committees and even some faculty members around the cause...
...ACSR, with one undergraduate representative, is a toothless creature of the Corporation. The committee functions solely in an advisory capacity; it meets extremely infrequently and in secret. If the administration wants to showcase the ACSR as an adequate forum in which students can influence Harvard’s investment policies, it needs to give the committee the actual power to control Harvard’s shares in companies that are deemed to be acting irresponsibly. The ACSR should be one of many avenues to bring forward concerns like HAC’s, and the committee should be reformed to make...