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RISD president Lee Hall was unavailable for comment last night. Until this time RISD faculty have held no contracts. The new tenure program will allow for one-, three-and five-year contracts, with the possibility of permanent appointment after the five-year period, subject to peer review and administrative approval...
...Hall issued a memo to students Sunday, advising them of their options in the event of a faculty strike the following day. He said students could...
...YEARS AGO TODAY, at dawn, 400 state and local policemen marched up the steps of University Hall, clubs raised, and began the brutal eviction of hundreds of student demonstrators who had occupied the building. More than 75 students were injured in the raid, and an appalled University came together for a momentous nine-day strike--nine days of the most dynamic political activity this University has seen. Just as the police bust was the last vain attempt of the Harvard administration to restore its own vision of a Harvard that had quite simply ceased to exist, the strike that followed...
Tempting, but sadly mistaken. The issues of that spring have not gone away, and the attitudes of an administration bent on limiting students' rights to free expression have hardly changed. The main issues that prompted the University Hall takeover and the strike that followed it were threefold: an end to the preferred status on campus of the armed forces' Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC), establishment of a viable Afro-American Studies Department, and an end to Harvard's unconscionable expansion into the surrounding community. Granted, ROTC is no longer an issue--at least for the moment--but the Faculty...
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the police raid on student demonstrators occupying University Hall--an event that triggered the historic nine-day strike of April 1969. Next week The Crimson will publish a special supplement on the strike and the lingering effects on Harvard in the past decade...