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Almost a year after calling on the University to divest of stock in all companies conducting business in South Africa, the 12-member Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) met Thursday night to discuss what issues the group will concentrate on this Spring...
...ACSR has also not concluded whether it will reconsider or vote again on the group's recommendation last Spring to divest of companies in South Africa...
...Jesse L. Jackson, comparing South Africa to Nazi Germany, yesterday said Harvard students have a "moral duty" to demand that the University divest of its holdings in companies with South African operations...
Jackson termed the sale of Baker stock "a very short step in a long journey," and called on Harvard to divest completely...
Jackson said divestiture "would set the pace for other universities. At Yale, Brown, Columbia-the students on those compuses would then have the momentum [to push their schools to divest]. The Harvard move would not be left in isolation...