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Underlying Fouquet's broad allegations, however, are points that question the ACSR's procedures and basic principles--points UCHSR members said they would definitely consider in making a decision today...
This afternoon a small undergraduate committee will meet to decide the fate of the undergraduate post of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR)--a committee whose purposes and legitimacy in the eyes of many undergraduates were questioned by the resignation of its sole undergraduate member on Wednesday...
Most of the UCHSR members believe an ACSR boycott is likely because, as a member said last night, "it's obvious that change on Harvard's investments cannot be brought about within the ACSR...maybe it's time to raise a stink...
...statement, Fouquet said the ACSR discussed a hypothetical question of whether the Harvard Corporation should be bound to, act if the entire Harvard community favored the initiation of a shareholder resolution in a company. Fouquet alleged that most ACSR members answered in the negative, because, "in the words of one, it was 'too much democracy...
Fouquet appears incorrect in extending this example to the larger question of how ACSR members can advocate majority rule in South Africa when they do not approve of democracy at Harvard. Nonetheless, the example seems to dispel any illusions that the ACSR is accountable to the Harvard community...