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...ARCO's Chairman of the Board is Robert O. Anderson, the entrepreneur responsible for the mergers that turned the company into an industry giant. Anderson's many political pursuits have won him a place in the current Who's Who in American Politics. Most notably, Anderson was a member of the finance committee of Nixon for President in 1967-68. Anderson was one of the oil executives who successfully sought Walter Hickel's nomination as Secretary of the Interior. Hickel was a development-minded governor of Alaska, and ARCO was intent on exploiting its North Slope holdings. Anderson served...
...federal campaign laws in 1974 allowed ARCO to organize a political action committee (PAC). The New York Times called ARCO's "Civil Action Program" one of the most sophisticated corporate PACs in the country. It is also one of the best financed. While other PACs usually confine themselves to soliciting campaign contributions from employees, ARCO spends about $750,000 annually giving political instruction to employees as well as retirees, shareholders, royalty owners, leaseholders and distributors. It encourages them all to pressure their legislators. In its latest annual report, ARCO notes, "In its continuing effort to heighten employee and shareholder political...
...fine way to carry on a dialogue with the public on topical issues. The Involved American Campaign of 1977, for example, appealed to citizens to take a stand on a number of national issues from energy to urban blight to aging. More than 35,000 Americans responded." An ARCO official told The New York Times that the company's three long-term public policy concerns were the withdrawal of public lands from development, the stringency of the Clean Air Act and increasing government regulation of corporations. ARCO's programs to mobilize employees and propagandize the public against these threats...
THERE ARE A number of reasons why ARCO's status as a political organization should stop the Kennedy School from using its name. The promotion of the name suggests a political endorsement. The academic community should be a haven for myriad viewpoints; Harvard should refuse to give its institutional backing to any single...
...motivation for the naming of the ARCO Forum appears to be founded on the same type of concern that prompted Susan Ford to promote Subaru. This in itself is distressing. It would be irresponsible for Harvard to follow a policy of endorsing consumer products for cash. Even if the University were to deny that the name of the Forum constitutes an endorsement, the public would still assume Harvard would not associate its name with an institution of which it did not approve. Moreover, it is well known that a prime objective of advertising is simply to publicize the product...