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Julie Fouquet ’80, undergraduate representative to the ACSR and chairwoman of the Undergraduate Committee on Harvard’s Shareholder Responsibility (UCHSR), had resigned from the ACSR in February of 1979. She told The Crimson that she did so because she felt that the committee was “stalling” on the South Africa issue and was prioritizing financial benefits over moral responsibilities...
After a year of absence from the ACSR, though, the UCHSR decided that its abstention from the ACSR’s deliberation process was not effective. So they sent a representative—Michael L. Waldman ’82—back to the ACSR...
...Initially we [the UCHSR] said we’re not going to have anything to do with it, because we think you should divest in all circumstances, but eventually I was sent, saying ‘we’ll be part of the process, but the University needs to be tougher on corporations that wish to do business in South Africa and play a more active role in making those corporations a more positive force of change,’” says Waldman...
...potential fresh perspectives and novel proposals students might offer are lost. Student involvement in making decisions has its own well-oiled machinery, of course, and those who choose to can serve on groups like the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life or the Undergraduate Committee on Harvard Shareholder Responsibility (UCHSR). These bodies, impotent to begin with, are tolerated until they propose anything out of the ordinary--like the Committee on Undergraduate Education's proposals on foreign study or UCHSR's proxy recommendations--and then ignored...
Julie Fouquet '80, chairman of UCHSR, said yesterday she believes Bok's rotation system is vague in failing to state the length of time each student will serve on the committee while allotting two years to both faculty and alumni representatives...