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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Even though President Bok has stated his opposition to separate Commencement speakers at graduate school exercises, officials at the Kennedy School of Government said last week they are still considering inviting a separate speaker to this year's June 10 ceremony.

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Several members of the Harvard Republican club said their new president used unethical methods to secure votes in the organization's February 25 election.

Members accused president Gregory J. Gross '83 of paying dues for at least 16 members in exchange for their support. Gross denied the charges, which were the latest in a series of intra-club problems during the past four years.

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Among 272 freshmen polled. 15 percent this week said Eliot or Quincy was their first-choice House for next year. Leverett was the overwhelming selection as a second-choice House with 28 percent. While Mather was the highest selection for a third-choice with 23 percent. North House and Mather House shared the least popular choices with 1 percent.

Freshmen will learn the results of the lottery March 25.

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Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci couldn't believe that it would cost $2500 to erect signs changing the name of Boylston St. to John F. Kennedy St. "They must want to make them out of gold," Vellucci said at last Monday's City Council meeting, postponing the funding request for a week. Vellucci said that before he would approve the $2500. "I'll make them [the signs] myself."

The council approved the name change last October, but delayed the sign switch for six months because local businessmen said they needed time to adjust.

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The two month old dispute between Harvard Real Estate's Ware St. tenants and the University got more personal and more serious last week. Daniel J. Giatrelis, an HRE official charged tenant leader Robert Epstein with assault and battery after an argument stemming from the installation of controversial storm windows in apartments at 9-13 Ware St.

University officials allege that Epstein pushed Giatrelis when the men argued and said his actions may result in his eviction. Epstein denies the charges and says he was only complaining about being struck by some debris from the renovation.

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One hundred fifty Harvard professors have joined more than 650 of their Boston area colleges in attacking a presidential report which states that human rights have recently improved in EI Salvador. The professors signed a petition which urged the U.S. to end all military and to the Latin American country and are planning an intensive lobbying effort in Washington this spring.

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Although calling last week's Women's History Week an "overwhelming success," organizers of the event strongly criticized the University-especially Radcliffe-for a pathetic job of financing and publicizing the event.