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Some of the student members of the ACSR, and some professors interested in environmental issues, would probably have been willing to establish a study committee anyway. But Surrey, probably with the support of a majority of the ACSR, worked out a compromise, which he introduced towards the end of a relatively stormy meeting, reportedly sparking some discontent among ACORN sympathizers who felt they'd been outmaneuvered. Harvard wouldn't send a study group to Arkansas, the ACSR decided--instead, interested Harvard professors would read AP&L's 1000-page environmental impact statement and other reports on the plant and comment...
...looks as though the experts may raise questions about the AP&L report--say it's a reputable job with lots of solid facts but some dubious conclusions. And that may mean that Harvard will have to break with precedent. For example, the ACSR may come out for telling AP&L and the Arkansas Public Service Commission that something should be done about the proposed plant's sulfur dioxide emissions...
Some committee members may find the prospect of such a break a bit unpalatable, at least until they've thoroughly mulled it over. Surrey recently tried to tighten up the confidentiality of the ACSR's meetings, addressing stern admonitions to the members and publicly denying that the ACSR is thinking in specific terms at all. But Harvard will probably manage some solution. In fact, its outlines may already be emerging. If the ACSR couples its AP&L recommendation with a reminder that AP&L's plans call for the largest coal-burning plant in the country, it can say that...
...Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility enters its second spring proxy season this month with 25 proxy resolutions on its agenda. The ACSR will make recommendations on all the proxy issues to the Corporation Sub-committee on Shareholder Responsibility, which then decides how to vote Harvard's stock...
...Christ--like all other groups filing Africa resolutions, a member of the Church Project on United States Investments in South Africa--has filed a resolution asking Gulf Oil to publish information on its operations in Angola. This is the issue that led to President Bok's establishment of the ACSR in 1972. Angola is a colony of the Portuguese government where Portugal consistently uses military force to quell black nationalists' movements for independence. Gulf operates in Angola with the approval of the Portuguese government and is in fact a major supplier of oil to Portugal--so critics charge that Gulf...