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...student movement against the University's holdings in companies with investments in South Africa began slowly in the fall, as small groups of students gathered outside meetings of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) during the preparation of that group's report on Harvard's investment policy. But interest soon began to snowball; the small gatherings swelled into the hundreds, and about 400 students and Faculty attended a Corporation open hearing on investment policy in March...
Soon it was clear that the ACSR final report would not contain the minimum demands of a number of student anti-apartheid groups: immediate divestiture of holdings in banks lending money to the Pretoria government, and sponsorship of shareholder resolutions for withdrawal of corporations doing business in South Africa. The ACSR instead recommended a case-by-case review of all University holdings, with an eye toward divestiture of the most offensive stocks. The ball passed into the Corporation's court...
Lascelles F. Anderson, associate professor of Education, will preside over the meeting, which will also include presentations by Henry B. Reiling, professor of Business and chairman of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR), Stephen C. Tracy, a graduate student in Education who is also an ACSR member, and Agere Mbere, also a graduate student in Education...
...will each spend about 20 minutes explaining some major concepts behind all the recent interest," Reiling said yesterday. "I will be identifying the main features of the ACSR report to the Harvard Corporation--rather than having a lot of busy people read the document, I'll be summarizing where the ACSR came out and why," he added...
...resolutions the ACSR considered yesterday will go on to the Corporation subcommittee, which makes the final decision on all proxy votes