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energized its "commitment" to investigating its ties to South Africa by initiating the case-by-case review system. Under this method, the ACSR systematically researches and reports on the practices of companies--but does so only on the recommendation of another shareholder...
...University, decide what's going to be built where and who will build it and why--has a committee that advises it on investments now. It's called the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility and the key word there is not responsibility but advisory. Because as the ACSR, which includes students among its members, has turned increasingly liberal, the Corporation has shied away from those suggestions and remained conservative. Not much has really changed from four years ago, when a spring night brought 3500 undergraduates into the streets of Cambridge with candles and placards and shouts that Harvard should sell...
Despite the assertion of Detlev F. Vagts '49, chairman of the ACSR, that the group's more progressive decisions represent a new position demanding greater efforts from corporations to insure that their activities do not bolster the racist regime in South Africa, the Corporation's hard line remains unchanged...
Only 150 protesters gathered in front of the Corporation building in April to protest the Corporation's decision to abstain on two resolutions which the ACSR had supported--one that would prohibit IBM from selling computers to the South African government and another that would set up a committee to review Caterpillar Tractor sales to the South African military...
...Corporation recently reiterated its position when it abstained on two more, ACSR-endorsed resolutions--one called on the owner of the firm that dumped toxic wastes in the Love Canal neighborhood, to establish a policy on toxic waste disposal; the other asked the Atlantic Richfield Company not to expand its operations in Chile. see Section...