Word: avc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University, however, stuck to its decision to reduce housing and the AVC formed a committee to protest the action. But complaints got them nowhere, and the affair ended with a "desperate need for low cost housing...
...When the AVC became a part of the University in August, 1946, Provost Buck, calling it the first such organization in the school's history, asked it to work with the Veteran's Counselling Bureau to handle veteran's problems...
...like those at Devens and Jarvis, the housing situation grew more and more serious until in 1947 the chapter was forced to send urgent letters to all students who lived outside of the University, and those who were leaving or graduating, asking them to put their rooms on the AVC file. The room would then be given to a veteran. The idea was repeated in March, 1949 to help those forced out of the Jarvis and Devens units, both of which were slated to close...
...time it was difficult to get rooms at any price, particularly on the $90 monthly allotment given married vets, or the $65 given single ones. The AVC struggled constantly to increase pay, and in November, 1946, joined a national movement to boost the monthly allotments by $35 and coordinate them with the cost of living...
...urgent problem developed in March, 1950 when the University began closing down most of the subsidized veteran's housing units Led by chairman Roy F. Gootenberg '49, now a teaching fellow in Government, an aroused AVC charged that Harvard might not fully understand the factors involved, and immediately conducted a survey to determine whether the administration's decision was based on a complete comprehension of the current situation...