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Well, you may remember all that, but now you can forget it. Because we are witnessing the emergence of a NEW HARVARD-the Harvard that really cares about split door panels. No less than that creative genius himself, Dean John T. Dunlop, mastermind of the painters' helper category and similar cheap labor programs for Model Cities construction, has charged that two of us "deliberately destroyed the lower panels of the North East door of University Hall...
...radical activities are dismissed in five pages, as a preface to a rather tedious eight page interview with four prominent faculty and administration figures, who deal in disjointed and abstract fashion with all the changes rocking Harvard today. The Yearbook never mentions the Center for International Affairs. The painters' helper issue is referred to only in passing. You don't have to agree with SDS, NAC, or the Weathermen to feel that these groups deserve at least a paragraph each in a 225 page account of Harvard...
...year and a half ago Harvard started the Painters' Helpers Training Program. Previously it had advertised for journeymen painters, but because of the low wages was unable to get them. This Helper Program was designed to hire qualified black painters as helpers. The applicants were told that there were no openings for journeymen at this particular time and that if they could perform the work satisfactorily they would be promoted to journeymen within the year. A year later this program and these men found that they would not only have to stay in this program for another year but also...
...summarize what has happened: one helper has a management position and 17 students have been suspended. On the positive side two helpers have been promoted to journeyman, and black and white workers and students have begun to come together to fight back against racism and other injustices...
...conjunction with the painters' union, Harvard abolished the helper category in January, replacing it with a new "apprentice" category for painters that the University claimed were unqualified to be journeymen...