Word: centering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University is all set to go ahead with plans to convert the Harvard Union into a humanities center and move the freshperson dining hall to Memorial Hall. But there's one catch--funding...
...present form, the proposal by the prestigious architectural firm of Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown would turn the Union into offices, seminar rooms and a graduate student center, says Peter J. Riley, project manager for the HRE study Memorial Hall would house a dining hall, restaurant, grill and general meeting spaces. Student organizations currently holding space in Memorial Hall would relocate to spaces left by departments moving into the humanities center...
Still, many student groups--even those that have lobbied hard for a student center--are not happy about this plan, which they say is not what they had in mind...
...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...