Word: statements
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Students are encouraged to weigh the seriousness of potential loss of function that may come from ingesting chemicals of unknown nature," the statement added...
...RESPONSES OF the corporations have been varied. Probably the most common tack has been that taken by Bristol Myers. When this corporation issued a proxy statement in 1976 urging a vote against the resolution and claiming that "Infant formula products are neither intended, nor promoted, for private purchase where chronic poverty or ignorance could lead to product misuse or harmful effects," a group called the Sisters of the Precious Blood sued the corporation for allegedly violating the Securities and Exchange Commission law against making misstatements on proxy statements. Despite the fact that the nuns compiled over 1000 pages of first...
...HARVARD CORPORATION'S long-awaited decision on the University's South African investment policy--neatly timed to diffuse student discontent and push any possible response into reading period--once again displays a tragic disregard for the larger moral and social issues surrounding the divestiture controversy. The Corporation's statement, released yesterday, means in effect that the University will do nothing beyond initiating a time-consuming case-by-case investigation into every Harvard holding in firms doing business with or in South Africa...
...statement also turns a deaf ear to the feelings of a large segment of the student body. That treatment, of course, comes as no surprise, yet in the wake of this week's large and peaceful demonstrations, some consideration and dialogue with those students would seem only fair. The uncommunicative and vaguely paranoid stance adopted by the University throughout this week shows that Harvard is both afraid of and unwilling to listen to its own no-longer-docile students...
WORST OF ALL, however, is the flagrant disregard displayed in the Corporation's statement for the moral issue at the heart of the matter. By refusing to act, for the time being, in a positive manner towards the repressive minority government in South Africa, the Corporation continues to passively support the systematic subjugation of South African blacks. The Corporation magnanimously agrees that apartheid is reprehensible, yet refuses to do what little it can to hasten its end. No one believes that divestiture, in any form, by the University would signal the economic death-knell of South Africa, but the Corporation...