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...Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) voted last night to encourage three companies to develop ethical criteria for the manufacture of nuclear weapons...
...ACSR is a committee of students, faculty, and alumni that makes non-binding recommendations to Harvard's governing Corporation on ethical questions related to the management of the University's $2.2 billion endowment...
...Corporation Committee on Corporate Responsibility (CCSR), a subcommittee of the Corporation, makes final decisions on all ACSR recommendations...
Because the ACSR is currently the only organized forum for student input, we do not urge its members to resign, as some have recommended. The committee should be used to its utmost capacity as a means for change, despite intrinsic limitations. At the same time, however, activists must explore other means of protest...
Rather than focusing attention on the ACSR, saving protests for the spring to respond to ACSR votes, protest should be a year-long effort by the divestiture movement. Students should lobby the University's most influential body-the alumni. The focus of the divestiture movement must spread to encompass students and faculty at the graduate schools. Radcliffe students should protest that school's investment policy in companies that do business in South Africa, in hope that Radcliffe can set an example for Harvard...