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President Bok's establishment of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) this Fall brought a potentially explosive issue under the Harvard umbrella. Last Spring, a group of black undergraduates, frustrated by Harvard's refusal to divest its portfolio of Gulf Oil stock, took over Harvard's "Wall Street"--Massachusetts Hall--in protest...
PALC charged that Gulf, through its operations in Angola, contributed to the well-being of the Portuguese government which holds Angola as a colony. PALC called for the University to acknowledge its social responsibility, and divest its 670,000 shares...
...chauvinist organization not an exclusive final club, neither a ham sandwich nor a lampshade, but rather Harvard's literary eating society." After the dinner Douglas and Rathborne elope to help a lonely Alaskan mountain defend its freedom of speech, Harvard Treasurer George F. Bennett Jr. urges the University to divest itself of its state and municipal bonds. "These bonds yield 4 1/2 per cent and 5 per cent respectively," Bennett explains. "That's an obvious conflict of interests." President Nixon announces that he is giving up the Paris Peace Talks for Lent...
...peace negotiations in their summer recess, Bunnies at the Paris Playboy Club take time out to vote Dr. Henry A. Kissinger '50 the "Piecemaker of the Year." In its first report, the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) calls the CRR "a bad investment" and demands that the University divest itself of all Glen Bowerstock...
Since it is impossible to read all these books, shouldn't we divest ourselves of them? Why should the student, who no longer has the time to read, endure the silent indictments of those unbroken bindings, those laminated spines, whenever he enters his own room? After all, there is no obligation to be the possessor of things which have no use. Not until we learn that reading is an obsessive act, even a necessity, will we become at home in our libraries...