The University should publicize Committee openings and the list of candidates who submit their own names. This would make the whole selection process much more open and honest, and would be a positive step for a Committee whose openness and honesty have been questioned in the past.

If in fact the President of the University himself selects some of the faculty nominees directly in order to bring to the ACSR expertise in certain areas of potential discussion and debate, as has been suggested by a former faculty member of the committee, Bok should try to recruit someone who is familiar with the South Africa situation.

Unfortunely, the Faculty lacks a real expert in South Africa history because the Andrew Mellon Chair in African History, the only full professorship in that field, has been left empty for the last four years and no efforts have been made to fill the vacancy in the last three years.

The Undergraduate Council, in a report issued last year has further called for direct election of faculty and alumni representatives, a proposition President Bok disapproved of in his preliminary response dated September 6, 1984.

I suggest that the Undergraduate Council take another look at the question of its representation on the ACSR. If it decides to send another resolution and report to President Bok and the other members of the Corporation, then the Undergraduate Council should affix a firm deadline at which time it will take additional action if a satisfactory response has not been received.

President Bok stated that his September 6, 1984 letter offered only "preliminary reactions" which could not be finalized until he received a separate report from the Board of Overseers concerning matters of shareholder responsibility. Apparently, the Overseers have not yet finished their report. It has now been almost a year since the original Undergraduate Council report was sent to the Corporation. Where is the Corporation's official response to last year's developments?

A forthcoming response from the Corporation is imperative. Our aim should be to insure full and fair representation on an untainted Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility. Our hope should be to prevent the Advisory Committee from becoming a sham, or worse, a "mockery of a sham.