Word: surreys
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...Harvard was enamored of power, though that charge has of course been made in the past. The problem was more that Harvard had never been faced with such a request before, and Harvard's relevant committees--the student-faculty-alumni Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, chaired by Stanley S. Surrey, Smith Professor of Law; and the Corporation's Sub-committee on Shareholder Responsibility, which makes the final policy decisions and consists of four substantial businessmen--last year proved their tenacity to precedents in University policy. President Bok set up the ACSR and the sub-committee less than two years...
Some of the student members of the ACSR, and some professors interested in environmental issues, would probably have been willing to establish a study committee anyway. But Surrey, probably with the support of a majority of the ACSR, worked out a compromise, which he introduced towards the end of a relatively stormy meeting, reportedly sparking some discontent among ACORN sympathizers who felt they'd been outmaneuvered. Harvard wouldn't send a study group to Arkansas, the ACSR decided--instead, interested Harvard professors would read AP&L's 1000-page environmental impact statement and other reports on the plant and comment...
Some committee members may find the prospect of such a break a bit unpalatable, at least until they've thoroughly mulled it over. Surrey recently tried to tighten up the confidentiality of the ACSR's meetings, addressing stern admonitions to the members and publicly denying that the ACSR is thinking in specific terms at all. But Harvard will probably manage some solution. In fact, its outlines may already be emerging. If the ACSR couples its AP&L recommendation with a reminder that AP&L's plans call for the largest coal-burning plant in the country, it can say that...
ACSR chairman Stanley S. Surrey, Smith Professor of Law, said yesterday he doubts the ACSR will reach any decisions in today's meeting...
...Surrey said yesterday the ACSR has not yet examined the new AP&L impact statement, but that "the statement is being looked at by informed people in this area." He declined to name the people looking at the statement...