Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fallows and other Crimson alumni say that, on at least one occasion, the administration tried to exert some control over the paper by appealing to its graduate board. Although undergraduates run the Crimson on a day-to-day basis, the graduate board owns The Crimson building and is empowered to take charge of the paper should they consider it necessary...
...Abortions were legally practiced during revolutionary times," she said. "The only major innovation has been the estrogen-based birth control pill...
...emerged as a leader in the Black community in the years preceding the strike, had spent her time fighting many of the same issues the students were protesting--the Vietnam war, Harvard's rapid expansion into the predominantly, Black Riverside neighborhood and the city's lack of a rent control...
Other changes--not directly linked to the student uprising--forced Harvard to reevaluate the way it dealt with the community. In 1970, the city enacted its current rent control law--designed to put an end to the practice of landlords splitting up apartments and to provide low-cost housing for the city's residents...
...Rent control, which was originally put forward by Communist students and militant Blacks, has become the dominant issue in city politics," says William B. Cunningham, an activist who worked to get rent control enacted...