Word: halle
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chanting and carrying signs reading "Stone is a Stain on Harvard," demonstrators gathered outside Mass Hall yesterday to protest the involvement of Corporation member Robert G. Stone '45 in "economic violence" against striking Appalachian coal miners...
Other unions involved in the rally included the AFL-CIO and Local 26, the Harvard dining hall workers' union. Representatives of both those groups and HUCTW said their organizations would continue to lend support to efforts against Stone...
Perhaps the first clue to Lawrence Watson's unique blend of professionalism and passionate advocacy can be found sitting on the coffee table outside his light-filled office in Gund Hall...
Teaching and research itself is being suffocated by thickening layers of bureaucracy. The dominant building on Harvard's campus is no longer University Hall but Holyoke Center, heart of Harvard's enormous officialdom. Moreover, an endless series of advisers are placed throughout the school in order to make the University more "sensitive" and "aware." The residential Houses, intended as intellectual enclaves within a large university, have become the best place to talk about one's sexual, social or drug problems, but not ideas--your's or anyone else...
...issue erupted in February when a gay student charged he was physically and verbally assaulted after a Mather House dance because of his sexual orientation. The incident intensified when gay students staged a "kiss-in" protest at the Mather dining hall. Later there were questions about teh original attack, but meanwhile the house, and the community at large, had split into camps which labeled each other as homophobic on the one hand and overly confrontational and "improper" on the other...