In a unanimous vote Thursday night, the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) decided to recommend that Harvard continue its automatic ban on investing in banks that make loans to the South African government.

Corporation members refused to comment on whether the body would heed the committee's non-binding advice but student members on the 12-person committee said it would be very difficult for Harvard's equivalent of a board of directors to ignore the unanimously supported recommendation.

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Cambridge, Brockton and state police arrested a second suspect in Brockton last Monday in connection with last week's murder of Carl F. Loebig, a Harvard employee who was stabbed to death in his apartment, one block from the Freshman Union.

The suspect. Arthur W. Brown, a 30-year-old Dorchester resident, was arrested without incident. Loebig, the victim, apparently knew Brown very well and was trying to cure him of alcoholism. a friend of Loebig's said last week.

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At least 75 Quincy House residents were stricken with a mysterious virus last week which brought in its wake vomiting and diarrhea. Although initially food poisoning was suspected. UHS officials diagnosed the ailment as some kind of virus.

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A coalition of women social scientists has filed a broad charge of sex discrimination against the University with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

Charging that Harvard has "a notorious disregard for hiring and promoting academic women," the 1500 member group. Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS), filed their charges on behalf of Theda R. Skoepol, a former associate professor of Sociology, all women who have ever been employed by the Faculty, and "all women who could have been employed" on the Faculty.

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A first-year law student. David Shelton '80, was found dead in his Boston apartment Tuesday night. The causes surrounding his death having not been released, pending the completion of a medical examiner's report, although suicide is suspected.

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The world survived the alignment of the earth, moon, sun, Jupiter and Venus this week although some people had speculated that the alignment would cause major disasters. Scientists at Harvard refuted a 1974 book called "The Jupiter Effect," which predicted that high winds and earthquakes would follow the rare grouping of the planets, but the masses were still alarmed. The Harvard observatory received 150 to 200 calls from people anxious to know whether the world would end. It didn't.

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