Word: acsr
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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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 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...
...Saturday, December 9, 1972, The Crimson in its "News in Review" section came out with an uncharacteristically misinformed and prejudiced article on the ACSR elections...
Steven Luxenberg reported that CHUL had recommended to Dean Whitlock to have the ACSR elections held in accordance with the CHUL model (one student elected from each House). The implication was that such a procedure would still be a popularity contest...
Whitlock rejected the Lobby's plan in favour of an alternate proposal by the Committee of House and Undergraduate Life. The CHUL plan called for each House to elect two students to a College-wide panel of electors. This panel will then choose two of its members for the ACSR...