Word: aids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fund will be used to finance underprivileged students--preferably Afro-Americans--in areas not usually covered by Harvard financial aid grants, committee-member Peter F. Hagerty '68 said yesterday. A student needing special tutoring before coming to Harvard, for example, would be eligible for the fund's help, he explained...
There is no room for neutrality, either. For all its hostility, Roxbury wants the Ed School's open active aid for other than adivsory purposes. It sees Harvard's name and influence as powerful leverage on the school system. When the Ed School hosted school system administrators and ghetto leaders from all over the Northeast last January 22, most Roxbury leaders came from the meeting satisfied, not because of any dialogue with the administrators, but because the Ed School invitation made it possible for blacks from five states to caucus during the conference. It was inadvertent advocacy, but advocacy nonetheless...
Generally, Roxbury wants more Harvard aid--"a pilot project here, a pilot project there" isn't enough--and it wants aid on different terms. "Do they go and drive the cars," asks Bryant Rollins, director of Community Development for the Urban League, "or do they put those resources in the hands of the community? Right now they're destroying us, not helping us." Community leaders want research and planning projects sub-contracted to Roxbury groups so they can hire the academics and staffs. The aim is not to force whites out--though the change would undoubtedly make more jobs...
...encounter has served at least one purpose. In their hesitant efforts to bridge the Charles, the two communities have outlined some of the problems which will face Harvard--and any other cloistered white university--if it tries to aid the city exploding in its backyard...
...suggest that money now going to new buildings be used instead for such purposes as enlarging the scholarship fund and granting subsidies to those who want to live off-off campus. We especially feel that funds should be used to attract and support students who without extensive financial aid would be unable to afford a Radcliffe education...