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Whitlock said Gill would sometimes contact him before she was going to City Council meetings to criticize Harvard and tell him "not to be offended...
...said Gill, who always dressed in army surplus clothes when he knew her, sometimes gave him surplus Krations so he and his family "could survive for a few days after the bombing or whatever...
...GILL APPEARS to have been a whirlwind of activity during those years. She ran for City Council in 1969, and appeared before it often to testify about Cambridge housing conditions. She once slept out on the City Hall lawn as part of her continuing protest...
...community work meshed nicely with her SDS activity. The radical organization was becoming in creasingly involved in criticizing Harvard's role in Cambridge, and Gill, many observers say, served as SDS's primary link with the area outside Harvard Yard...
Several observers of the scene go so far as to trace to Gill one of the six demands of the 1969 University Hall takeover and the ensuing strike--that Harvard cease its alleged expansion in Cambridge and Roxbury. This seems a bit far-fetched, but Gill undoubtedly had some influence on the SDS community policy...