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...without looking callous. He organized petitions and letters and sent out information about the plant to everyone at Harvard who could possibly help ACORN. Students got interested in the issue, and several ecology and leftist groups urged Harvard to intervene. The matter eventually came into the hands of the ACSR...
...ACSR took its time. It first commissioned a detailed report from the Investor Responsibility Research Center on the plant, and then had several experts go over the report and AP&L's environmental impact statement. Finally, in late spring, the ACSR came out with a four-page statement on the plant that called on AP&L to "re-examine its plans with respect to the problem of sulfur dioxide and other emissions" and said the utility should consider installing the additional emission controls ACORN has been pushing...
Last month the Corporation subcommittee sent the ACSR statement to Middle South Utilities and ACORN, thus taking its first--and probably its last for a while--stand on a shareholder issue that does not involve a proxy resolution...
...plant in a few days, and ACORN will try to have the commission rule that AP&L must install the additional controls. It remains uncertain how much good Harvard's laborious wrangling with the issue will do in the end, since the Corporation did not send the ACSR statement to the Public Service Commission. ACORN is now trying to have the statement introduced as evidence, and if it fails the statement will go unread by the authorities...
Besides the AP&L statement, all the ACSR's specific actions on issues ranging from South Africa to equal employment to corporate political contributions went almost unnoticed. In the spring of 1972, for example, it was Harvard's abstention on a resolution calling on Gulf to report on its Angola operations that most directly prompted the Mass Hall takeover...