Word: busting
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This is likely because no two witnesses to the events of 1969 see them in the same way. But in the years since the strike and the bust brought activism home to Harvard, all say they have learned vivid lessons from the morning where a hundred things that could never have happened at Harvard suddenly...
...order outof the chaos students had created insideUniversity Hall. Soon after the students hadejected the administration, Hyland spurred thecreation of administrative units among theprotestors--food, sanitation and political actioncommittees were soon formed. They were loyal totheir pledge of "democracy" and voted to not useviolence in the case of a bust and to not usemarijuana...
Levenson says that though the bust was perhapsmore violent than necessary, he also understoodthe administration's reaction...
Levenson, now employed by the administration hesupported in 1969, has if anything only hardenedhis views towards student protestors in the 30years since the bust...
...event to commemorate the 20th anniversaryof the bust in 1989, speaker Dale E. Fink '71-'72summed up as well as could be hoped the confusedand powerful set of feelings that 1969 stillconjures up in those who were at Harvard then...