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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...
...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...
Fenced in by a lack of money on one side, and lack of rooms on the other, the AVC squawked loudly in February, 1948 when the administration proposed a 30 percent room rent rise to cover a deficit in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The chapter charged that the University had not exhausted all sources at its disposal and declared the money could "come from elsewhere." It settled the problem by having all "hardship" cases seek aid through proper Harvard channels...
...AVC launched a drive against loyalty oaths in December 1949, when it attacked the "stool pigeon" clause in the oath required of all Navy men, including Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps members. The clause, compelling Navy men to name all persons connected with groups listed as subversive by the Justice Department, was called a "menace to American freedom and a special threat to academic freedom...
Gootenberg sent copies of the protest to Congressmen and several national organizations. The AVC's action was "felt round the world", and in March the Navy Department struck the clause out of the oath. A Navy official claimed that agitation at Harvard was the principal reason for removal of the 15-word clause...