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...fallout continues to bother its victims.“I am deeply grateful to the many Harvard faculty members who supported me in a difficult time, and who contributed generously to my legal defense fund,” Kamin wrote. “That gratitude does not extend to Harvard as a whole.”—Staff writer April H. N. Yee can be reached at aprilyee@fas.harvard.edu...
...infamous dessert riot, this Harvard Yearbook description may seem to describe Harvard College Libraries’ (HCL) decision to keep Lamont open 24 hours a day on weekdays. But this year-in-review blurb was actually written 50 years ago, celebrating a successful student campaign in 1955-6 to extend the undergraduate library’s weekday closing time from 10 p.m. to the wee hour of midnight throughout the school year...
...October 11, 1955 editorial piece in The Crimson provides the first written account of the movement to extend hours in Lamont, which first opened its doors...
...issue of staffing presented one of the main obstacles as the College prepared to extend Lamont’s hours. At the time, federal wage and hour laws prevented women from working late nights, and only three of Lamont’s 22 staff members were men. While the Freshman Union Committee offered to staff the library with volunteer freshmen after 10 p.m., Buck chose to simply use a reduced staff during the extended hours, saying at the time, “it isn’t fair to depend on anyone whom you don’t compensate...
...there is no doubt that security guarantees is the trickiest issue in terms of incentives for Iran, which wants the U.S. and other supporters of regime change to formally renounce any such goal. Secretary Rice stressed that the U.S. concerns are not limited to the nuclear issue, and extend to issues such as terrorism and Iraq. But Iran reportedly offered in April 2003 to engage in talks to address all such concerns, as well as the issue of Iranian support for Palestinian radical groups, and that offer was rebuffed by the Bush Administration. The troubles confronting the U.S. in both...