Word: halls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Even so, Moscone said: "I don't take a doomsday approach to how this city is going to react to crisis. We've been through earthquakes, don't ya know?" An anonymous poet was less optimistic, leaving this ditty taped to the door of San Francisco's city hall...
Legras' neighbors were appalled. "A man should want to defend his property from the ravages of criminals," said Marcel Delahaye, mayor of a nearby village. Some 1,000 townspeople marched to the town hall in support of the garage owner, and 6,000 area residents signed pro-Legras petitions. Huffed one observer at Legras' trial: "Who knows when we will find burglars drawing unemployment insurance in case of on-the-job accidents...
Gibson is the staff assistant to Archie C. Epps III, dean of students. Tucked in an office of her own on the first floor of University Hall, Gibson serves as a buffer between Epps and the hordes of undergraduates clamoring at his door, and she solves many of their problems on her own. Her biggest difficulty, in fact, is often no in devising solutions but in convincing the students their woes are not as severe as they think...
...course, every job has its surprises: Gibson was one of the employees unable to enter her office when students protesting Harvard's investment in firms operating in South Africa closed University Hall in late April. It was an "eventful" week, Gibson recollects but it didn't stir up conflicts between the administrators in the office and their staff...
...seem to me to be a very good idea to have the freshmen separate from the upperclassmen. I lived at Currier, and it was much easier for me to have contact with the upperclassmen than for the present freshmen. All I had to do was walk around the dining hall to meet them...