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The race for Massachusetts State Treasurer has developed into a contest of reputations and personal ethics, with both sides slinging and dodging veritable landslides of mud.
Especially after Harvard Corporation member Roderick M. MacDougall '51--also University treasurer and chairman of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility--acknowledged the importance of pressure from students and alumni in changing Harvard's investment policy, there can be no doubt that the continued high level of protest over the...
Roderick M. MacDougall '51, Harvard treasurer and chairman of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR), said at a press conference yesterday that a new investment guideline which prompted the withdrawal of $160 million in funds in eight major international corporations "was influenced by students and alumni" who protest the...
The treasurer's comments came as student and alumni activists who advocate complete withdrawal of South Africa-related stock claimed partial victory in forcing the recent divestments and called for the continuation of protests until Harvard has no remaining financial ties to South Africa.
But union disclosure forms show that at least until mid-1984 the union has held securities in companies which do business in South Africa. As the funds' treasurer, Bozzotto signed the forms in 1984. More recent disclosure forms are unavailable, Labor Department officials said.