Word: halle
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part of an IOP lunch series at Memorial Hall, Willson spent the bulk of her time speaking about her past jobs and her transition fromn teaching chemistry to administrating...
...thirtieth anniversary, does anyone still care about the student takeover of University Hall? The students who occupied the headquarters of the Harvard administration a generation ago were fighting for causes we can barely understand now. They lived not in the apathetic environment of today's college campuses but in a political climate dominated by the shadow of a war that ended before we were born. They subscribed to political philosophies we now tend to dismiss as anachronistic, or as mere curiosities...
...memories of 1969 persist. The picture of an anti-war student in the Faculty Room of University Hall remains one of the most famous images of twentieth-century Harvard. Student activists ever since then have had to contend with implicit, sometimes unfair, comparisions to Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) at University Hall.The University remembers 1969, too: anyone who lives in a building constructed after the takeover can sleep soundly at night in a riotproof dorm...
...time of the takeover. Like so much of the 1960's--the abstract concept of "the sixties" is condemned by conservatives as the root of every problem from drug abuse to the Clinton presidency and praised by liberals as the heyday of the civil rights movement--University Hall has been inflated to near-mythic status...
...care about University Hall because it was, depending on whom you talk to, the nadir of civility at Harvard or the birth of student activism...