Word: halls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...police moved in shortly after 5 a.m. The raid began minutes after Fred L. Glimp '50--then dean of the College and now vice president for alumni affairs and development--warned the demonstrators inside that they had five minutes to evacuate the hall. Many demonstrators said later that Glimp's bullhorn-amplified voice was inaudible inside the building...
...list of six demands approved at an SDS-sponsored meeting: abolition of Harvard's Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) programs and contracts; replacement of all ROTC scholarships with University scholarships; reinstatement of the scholarships of students disciplines in the wake of an earlier anti-ROTC demonstration at Paine Hall; a roll-back in rents on all Harvard-owned buildings to their January 1, 1968 level; no destruction of black workers' homes to allow for expansion of the Medical School; and no destruction of University Road apartments to make way for construction of the Kennedy School of Government building...
Ironically, the same meeting of students that approved the demands had three times rejected--by narrow votes--proposals that students occupy University Hall to support the demands. Instead, about 300 demonstrators marched onto the grounds of the house of then President Nathan M. Pusey '28 on Quincy St., the building that now headquarters the Harvard Corporation. Led by Jessie L. Gill--a tenant's organizer and SDS militant who had been active in tacking the community-oriented demands on to the list of anti-ROTC proposals--the group marched up to the house. Gill then pushed aside a guard...
...next day, April 9, hundreds of students gathered in the Yard at noon, for a rally and reading of the SDS demands. The Crimson originally reported that the crowd outside University Hall approved the seizure of the building by an 800-400 vote. In fact, as was subsequently reported a majority of the crowd apparently opposed the move. Within 15 minutes, students had swarmed into University Hall and ejected several administrators, including Robert B. Watson '37, dean of students and later athletic director; Archie C. Epps III, then assistant dean of the College and now dean of students; F. Skiddy...
...University and upon rational processes and accepted procedures," Pusey said in a statement released April 11. "What is now at stake is the freedom to teach, to inquire and to learn," Ford added in a statement released the same day. "Some now insist that 'storm troopers entered University Hall.' This is true, but they entered it at noon on Wednesday, not dawn on Thursday...