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...ACSR's function as an advisory panel on proxy resolutions is largely unnecessary, as it appears to be then its work on Harvard's South Africa policy represents an area in which the Committee conducts real research and provides a valuable counseling service to the University. However, the South Africa question is very complex and fraught with emotional reactions. It is also the most enduring and important moral and political dilemma to have faced the University in recent years. Under the circumstances, it is imperative that President Bok and the Corporation take every necessary step to insure the impartiality...
...reason the ACSR was able to come to a unanimous or near unanimous position on the vast majority of the proxies it reviewed was that the resolutions usually presented us with a ridiculously easy choice to make. The Corporation only differed with the ACSR in matters where a real choice was to be made...
...four cases where the Corporation and the ACSR were at odds over a proxy vote last year, the ACSR wanted to hold the company in question to more rigorous ethical standards and greater public scrutiny than the Harvard Corporation was willing to go along with Whenever a tough issue arose and Corporation members disagreed with the ACSR's interpretation of a resolution, they disregarded out carefully considered recommendation and voted as they liked...
...closest things to a charter that the ACSR has is included in the Financial Report's 10-years review of the Committee. According to this Constitution ACSR members are supposed to be selected in the following way: students are elected or appointed by the student government mechanisms within the college the various graduate selected: alumni are nominated by the president of the Alumni Association: and professors are nominated by the president of the various faculties. The President has the final say in all alumni and faculty appointments...
These rules governing: ACSR selection appear to have been applied in a slipshod manner at least in recent years...