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...CCSR makes the final decision on Harvard’s vote but is advised by another Harvard group, the 12-member Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR)—which has four student members, including one undergraduate. In five of its six proxy vote abstentions on global warming, the CCSR rejected the recommendations of the ACSR—wasting Harvard’s potential to send a forceful message about environmental responsibility...
...contradicting the advice of the ACSR, the Corporation Committee has essentially ignored the carefully-researched affirmative-vote determination reached by the ACSR. The Advisory Committee devotes enormous amounts of time and attention to the issues on which Harvard will vote, and the CCSR members ought to give great weight to its judgment on these important environmental votes...
...Personally, I think it would make more sense to have it operating as a joint committee” between the Corporation and the advisers, said Emma S. Mackinnon ’05, one of four students and the only undergraduate on the ACSR...
...CCSR and ACSR both agreed to support proposals at Dover, J.C. Penney, ExxonMobil and Centerpoint Energy adding the category of sexual orientation to the non-discrimination policies of those companies...
Also at Coca-Cola, the CCSR agreed—after a unanimous ACSR vote—to oppose a measure to withdraw company support for National Public Radio in light of the station’s allegedly biased coverage of the Middle East...