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...Five years after the 1969 student takeover of University Hall, Square establishments were still taking precautions against violent student rallies...
Nobody at Harvard got very much sleep the night of April 9, 1969. Earlier that afternoon, several hundred students had taken over University Hall, the headquarters of the Harvard administration, and were holding the building into the night...
Shortly before 5 a.m., police arrived in theYard. Dean of the College Fred L. Glimp '50 stoodon the steps of University Hall and used abullhorn to warn the students inside that they hadfive minutes to leave the building. Those insidesaid they could not hear him. Two minutes later,the police began entering the building...
...bust, as it would come to be known, wouldonly take a few minutes. The last paddy wagonsleft the Yard at 5:25 a.m. In that time, 196students were arrested, and dozens injured. Anextra edition of The Crimson that morning captureda moment of the tumult inside the hall: "A shortbrown-haired girl was hurled against the room'swooden divider and a trooper shouted, 'If youdon't stay there I'll break your fuckin' head.'"By the time the police left, the sidewalk outsideUniversity Hall was spattered with blood...
...years this April since the takeover of University Hall by radical student protestors and the bloody "bust" by state and local police. But in some ways the smoke still hasn't cleared. The players in this drama still argue over who were the true barbarians--the building's occupiers or those who ejected them. Today's student activists struggle with their predecessors' legacy of destructive but successful radicalism. Two days of living dangerously have given way to three decades of reaction, regret and reflection...