Word: nader
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...biggest battle over Harvard's investment policy concerned the attempt of a group of Washington, D.C. lawyers led by Ralph Nader to make the General Motors Corporation more responsive to the needs of the consumer and the public. The group, which called itself "Campaign to Make General Motors Responsible" proposed three major changes in the operation of the giant automobile company...
...months before it came time for Harvard to make its decision on GM, the corporation asked for and received advice from all groups associated with the University. By May 1, three fourths of their correspondence supported the Nader group. The statements of support included a Faculty resolution, an alumai poll, a student petition with more than 1500 names, a law brief from the Harvard Environmental Law Society, and letters from Mayor White and Senator Edward M. Kennedy...
...issue were two precedent-setting resolutions proposed by "Campaign G.M.," an organization started by four young Washington lawyers inspired by some of Nader's efforts. One of the proposals would have added three "public representatives" to the corporation's 23-man board. The nominees: Environmentalist Dr. Rene Dubos; Betty Furness, who was Lyndon Johnson's consumer adviser; and the Rev. Channing Phillips, who would have been the first black ever to sit on G.M.'s board. The second proposal would have created a Shareholders' Committee for Corporate Responsibility, authorized to spend one year investigating...
...resolve any doubt as to where it stands in America's growing polarization, the Harvard Corporation re-affirmed its allegiance to corporate oligarchy this week with a firm rejection of the eminently reasonable, eminently liberal Nader movement to Make GM Responsible. Combined with Harvard's ongoing implication in three of the four demands, the position that Harvard is not an appropriate target of the strike is bankrupt. The nation that Harvard can actually be an ally-after all, Pusey went down to Washington to confer with The Man just last week-is positively ludicrous...
Consciously or not, Pusey railroaded through the Faculty the Campaign GM proposal which would recommend to the Corporation that Harvard vote its proxy with the Nader forces. He squeezed off the effort to express even strangled protest to the motion, which is favored by moderate activists on campus...