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Undergraduate Council--Finance Comm. and Treasure Chair, Undergrad Rep. to ACSR. House Committee. Hillel Coordinating Council...
...action was an appropriate response to the Corporation's continued indifference to the concerns of a community dedicated to free and open discussion and pursuit of the truth. Unfortunately, there is no mechanism to ensure that students, faculty, alumni, and staff have input into the Corporation's decisions. The ACSR, the only institution related to the Corporation with any presense of representing community concerns, has served only as a lightning rod to deflect criticism from the Corporation itself. In such a situation--a situation where the rules are stacked against quiet, respectful debate--civil disobedience is an important...
...essential that the ACSR be democratic and representative; without these qualities, it is entirely superfluous. The Undergraduate Council recognized this fact when it threatened recently to remove its member from the board unless the ACSR made democratic reforms. Each group of affiliates must hold democratic elections. Student and faculty votes must be taken campus-wide, and alumni and as-yet-unrepresented staff should be polled. The ACSR's recommendations might ormight not change, but theyw ould at least be fair and representative of the board's constituency, and activists would have a forum to voice concerns without having to resort...
...ACSR was created to bolster the Corporation's image of concern for critical opinion. But Harvard must understand that maintaining that image depends upon being honest, and not making token gestures to the community. It must open up the ACSR to popular election and deal head-to-head with popular views...
...African investments when he will not even make policy changes or heed lobbies to do so at the University that is in his charge. I would urge Mr. Steiner and the rest of the governing boards to stop embarrassing themselves and, in turn, the University and to follow the ACSR's recommendation to divest. Samuel Sifton...