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...comment from Hugh Calkins '45, chairman of the Corporation subcommittee responsible for deciding how the University will vote on shareholder resolutions, that Harvard makes its initial investment decision primarily for economic reasons follows the Corporation's official policy adopted in 1978. Calkins and other Harvard officials have maintained in recent interviews...
...most flagrant indication, of course, was the comment of senior Corporation fellow Hugh Calkins '45 to members of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) that Harvard does not take ethical considerations into account in the initial decision to buy shares in a company. While it sounds unduly harsh, this statement probably represented little more than a semantic change in the University's South Africa policy. As it is, Harvard says it checks up on companies already in its portfolio to make sure they are in some way working for "constructive change" in South Africa Calkins statement simply means Harvard...
...hunger strikers yesterday issued a press release stating that Steiner had said he did not believe that Corporation member Hugh Calkins '45's statement "could be taken at face value...
Corporation members Hugh Calkins '49 statement that Harvard's investment decisions are divorced from moral considerations: President Bok's conflicting remark that the Corporation had already "decided what is right" by not divesting and Treasurer George Putnam '49's laughter upon hearing of the last have all been publicized, thereby calling attention to the often callous attitude of the Corporation toward students...
...long talk with TIME'S Washington Contributing Editor Hugh Sidey, Pownall gave his first public reflections on the epic merger battle of 1982. Highlights of their conversation...