Word: bok
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...letter to the Undergraduate Committee on Harvard Shareholder Responsibility (UCHSR), which selects the college's ACSR member and is sponsoring the proposed ACSR reforms, Bok approved the selection of graduate school faculty and student ACSR members by a fixed system of rotation of the graduate schools from which they are drawn. He also deferred two procedural reforms of the ACSR to the judgement of the advisory committee...
President Bok yesterday rejected two proposed reforms of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) designed to make the committee more representative of the Harvard community and to ensure its members are democratically elected...
...letter, Bok states his goal with the ACSR "is not to create...a body that somehow or other appears to reflect (numerically, ideologically, and in other ways) the Harvard community...
...Bok notes the "impossibility" of the ACSR accurately representing all of Harvard's students, faculty, many tens of thousands of alumni and thousands of employees, parents of students, extension students, and others who take an active interest in Harvard's affairs...
...Bok rejected UCHSR's contention that the ACSR gives undue weight to financial concerns when reviewing Harvard's investments. He states, "any advice offered by the ACSR...must take into account all relevant factors, and in most situations in life, costs are relevant when trying to choose the responsible course of action...