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Seven members of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR), three nuclear experts, and an audience of about 50 people last night engaged in a wide ranging discussion on Harvard's investments in the nuclear weapons industry...
Several student members of the ACSR-which advises the Corporation on its ethical responsibilities as a stockholder-said after the forum that while the discussion was rather unfocused, it did serve as a good first step in helping Harvard begin to shape a nuclear weapons policy...
...Monday, the Corporation decided not to support an ACSR-recommended resolution that would require the IBM Corp.--in which Harvard owns more than $50 million worth of stock--to halt all of its operations in South Africa...
Later in the week the ACSR voted 5-2 in favor of a shareholder resolution that would limit the DuPont company's work with nuclear weapons, but it appears likely that the Corporation will also abstain on this proposal...
...ACSR open meeting on the nuclear question has been scheduled for some-time next fall...