Word: froshes
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...During pre-frosh weekend, about 30 members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement occupy Byerly Hall for six hours to promote their campaign for a living wage at Harvard. Facing down potential arrest, members refuse to heed requests from the Harvard University Police Department that they leave the building...
...undergraduate admission office announces that about 80 percent of students admitted to the Class of 2004 will attend Harvard, giving the College its highest yield since the early 1970s. Officials credit the College's generous financial aid program and successful pre-frosh weekend as factors in Harvard's impressive yield, which is consistently the highest of the nation's selective colleges...
Students camped out in front of the Science Center, evaded police to stage teach-ins in Mass. Hall and Holyoke Center and occupied the admissions office at Byerly Hall at the height of pre-frosh weekend...
...During pre-frosh weekend, PSLM staged a teach-in in Byerly Hall to the consternation of admissions officers. In May, they brought actors Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, Class of 1992, to the steps of Littauer to blast Harvard for dawdling on the issue...
...they provided the media attention the University no doubt has hoped to avoid. The rally was the culmination of year-long efforts by the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) to draw attention to Harvard's lowest-paid workers, efforts that included sit-ins, occupation of Byerly Hall during pre-frosh weekend, teach-ins and more...