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Twenty-five candidates, net limited to members of the council, ran for the student slots on the permanent committee the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibilities (ACSR), Athletics, Advising and Counselling, and Library...
Ethan H. Cohen '86, a council representative from Quincy House, was elected student representative to the ACSR, Picked for the Committee on Advising and Counseling were: Erica S. Eisenberg '86, a council representative from Lowell House, Lori E. Lesser '88 and Deborah Schrag...
Cohen says his top priority as a member of the ACSR, which advises the Corporation on ethical issues related to its ownership of stock, will be to continue to pressure the University to divest its holdings in companies that do business in South Africa...
Last year the ACSR 6-5-1 to recommend that the University divest its South African stock. This full President Bok released an open letter detailing his objection to the ACSR's proposal...
...next arguments which Bok attempts to make were all dealt with and refused at length by the Advisory Committee. Bok argues that Harvard's divestment alone would not have the effect of forcing U.S. companies to withdraw. This is, of course, true, as the ACSR acknowledge. But we must consider not merely the individual effects of Harvard's divestment, but the cumulative effect of divestments all over the country. If all that mattered was the result of the individual action, who, asks the ACSR, would ever write a letter to a senator...