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...NUMBER of precedents emerged from last Spring's stock debates, and it is unlikely that Harvard will break from them quickly, since both the ACSR--chaired by Stanley S. Surrey, Smith Professor of Law-- and the Corporation subcommittee showed interest in preserving continuity in University policy...
Time has changed even the most sacrosanct of Harvard's policies, of course, and in some cases these decisions were far from unanimous to begin with (several of them represent overrulings of the ACSR). Some issues become more widely publicized with time; others--military contracting by corporations, for example--recede in public interest. Nevertheless, barring the unforeseen--another building occupation like the one in the Spring of 1972 which helped bring about Bok's new system, or the withdrawal of a large gift by a donor who deemed the University's policies as a shareholder unsatisfactory (this recently happened...
With interest in shareholder questions down considerably from the morning two Aprils ago when black students seized Mass Hall, the ACSR and the subcommittee will probably be operating pretty much on their...
...comment of a Student ACSR member last year, which was made when other members of the group berated him for not seeking the opinions of the students who elected him actively enough, seems typical...
Pressure from groups including (H-R Afro), the Harvard-Radcliffe Association of African and Afro-American Students, led to the establishment a year ago of the ACSR, or Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility. The group, which includes an undergraduate contingent called the Student ACSR, recommends to a corporation subcommittee how Harvard should vote its proxies on shareholder resolutions...