Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result of low turnout among Harvard students for a bus trip to National Student Lobbying Day in Washington earlier this week, the Undergraduate Council spent more than $500 of student funds for bus seats that went unused...
...council had allocated up to $675 to pay the full costs of 25 bus seats, and requested that students pay back $10 of their own money if they were not in serious financial need. Five of the seven students who took up the offer for a ride in Washington agreed to pay part of their way Eisenberg said...
...helped reinforce city segregation patterns. Federal Court Judge William Hungate threatened to impose mandatory metropolitan busing unless suitable voluntary arrangements were made. Last week, after eight days and 60 hours of intense negotiations, 22 out of 23 county school districts agreed to a unique voluntary desegregation program that will bus about 15,000 black students from city to suburban schools. Says James DeClue, president of the St. Louis chapter of the N.A.A.C.P.: "It's a historic accomplishment. It's quite unlike anything that has happened in the history of school-desegregation cases...
...first 25 students who call the Council office after 1 p.m. Friday will receive seats on the bus...
Erica S. Eisenberg '86, chairman of the Council's student services subcommittee, said yesterday the Council has agreed to absorb up to $250 more in bus fares for students who cannot afford the ride. "I think that the people most affected by the cuts are those who can least afford to get down there," she explained...