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...South House referendum gave two reasons for disapproving of the plan passed last Wednesday by the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life. The referendum objected to the ACSR's lack of definite powers and to the fact that representatives to the committee were not directly elected...
...stated purpose of the ACSR is to advise the Administration in areas of corporate responsibility. The panel will have two undergraduate and three graduate student members as well as members of the Faculty and the Administration...
WITHOUT QUESTION, the election procedure Dean Whitlock adopted last week for the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) is a step forward, no matter how tentative. Though authorized personally to select undergraduate representatives with the advice of student-Faculty committees. Whitlock chose a somewhat more democratic plan, granting undergraduates at least an indirect voice in the selection of their own spokesmen...
...ACSR elections represent as opportunity that is real, though limited. A demonstration of undergraduate concern for University democracy--by conducting the election and by choosing representatives committed to change--can contribute to a more socially responsible investment policy and a more socially aware Harvard community...
...ACSR will immediately face two vital questions: the extent of his influence, and the breadth of its jurisdiction. Houses should elect students committed to obtaining a decision-making role, who will define "shareholder responsibility" as more than voting anti-management proxies. There are issues which undergraduates must force the ACSR to recognize: the influence of well-publicized stock purchase and divestiture; opportunities for profitable investment in underdeveloped areas of Cambridge and Boston; Harvard's ability to foster corporate social responsibility by instigating its own anti-management fights...