Word: center
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...December, a staff member was raped in the middle of the afternoon in the Science Center. Harvard police reported that the assailant gained access to an upper floor of the building and held his victim hostage without being caught...
This frightening episode, and two reported incidents of sexual molestation of freshman women, led to increased demands from students and staff members for better security measures around the University. Yet the adminstration only replaced the student guards at the Science Center with armed, professional ones. Harvard refused to lock three of the building's four doors after business hours or limit access to the upper floors before 5 p.m. because such measures would be inconvenient for some faculty members. The administration also refused to increase the number of street lights in the Yard, even after six assaults of students near...
...Plans for a "model child care center" and increased child care subsidies...
...June he gave the Kennedy School of Government $7 million to fund the school's 18-month-old poverty studies center...
Before the Wiener gift the poverty studies center had lacked major funding. Officials said the new money would go to house the institute and to endow two professorships in poverty and health...