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Chanting “Hey, Harvard, you should know, temp abuse has got to go,” protestors said that they demanded justice for Harvard??s temporary workers—claiming that the University refused to give them unionized jobs after a period of work, as stipulated by their contracts, to avoid giving them union benefits and wages...
...efforts to open Harvard??s doors have succeeded. In the mid-1960s, Harvard had a four-to-one male-to-female ratio, fewer than half the number of scholarship students we enroll today, and only a sprinkling of minority and international students. To return to the past by limiting our recruitment efforts would relegate Harvard to a greatly diminished role in developing the talents of all of our citizens...
...February 2009, she appointed Harvard Law School Professor Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr. and lecturer Stephanie Robinson as Masters of Winthrop House—the first African-American House Masters in Harvard??s history...
Lingering in the background of these developments were Harvard??s efforts to purchase the Bennett Street Yards, a prime stretch of riverfront property owned by the Massachusetts Transit Authority. The negotiations stretched from 1955 to 1966 and pitted the University against Cambridge City Council officials—particularly Alfred “Big Al” E. Velucci—who were opposed to the idea of a tax-exempt organization such as Harvard taking over an even larger share of lucrative Cambridge real estate...
...proposed changes to Harvard??s housing system—either the intended creation of three separate Yard houses, the planned purchase of the MTA yards, or the construction of the new facilities near the River—Strauss said that as far as he was concerned, “this was far above...