Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hopes to all but end the University's growth, Schmidt's assistant, Louis Armistead, said two weeks ago that Harvard would present a list of objections in written form to the council and planning board hearings on the proposed ordinance. Though he refused to specify exactly what in the draft law pains the University, Harvard officials have complained privately about the strict "institutional overlay" lines drawn around heavy concentrations of University use, outside of which expansion will be most difficult. The lines, the officials fear, will create "psychological barriers" to any growth at all, even into non-residential neighborhoods...
...more than 1800 protesters, making it the largest demonstration at Harvard since students rallied in the spring of 1978 against the University's policy on investments concerning South Africa. In early May, dozens of students traveled to the nation's capital to march in one of the largest anti-draft demonstrations since the Vietnam War years...
Forman, who has spoken out, has earned the distrust of the administration. When the Klitgaard Report--a controversial draft study on Harvard admissions--leaked out last fall, administrators confronted her to see if she was responsible...
...carted down to Washington during the early 1950s for the McCarthy commission's investigations into alleged Communist activities. Some students may have heeded the danger signals and muffled their political opinions, but the notorious red-baiting stimulated the sort of concern, and apprehension, for public affairs as did the draft legislation of the 1960s...
...subject of growing pacifism in Western Europe was brought up. The U.S. was no stranger to similar sentiments in the past, he pointed out forcefully, but Europe had not wavered in its allegiance to the alliance. Schmidt reminded Reagan that the U.S., unlike West Germany, no longer had a draft, and therefore was less susceptible to the youthful protests that have bedeviled Bonn...