Word: kiosks
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...subway kiosk rests on the remains of an early 18th-century meeting house that was converted to a dumping ground when fire destroyed it in the 1830s. Artifacts from the dump site may be important because they could reveal the socio-economic backgrounds of local inhabitants, Russell Barber, the research director for the ICA, said last week...
...Deans Rosovsky, Fox and Epps expected the students to accept the kiosk rules without modification in exchange for the alternatives, which include enclosed bulletin boards in the Yard, better maintenance of the kiosks, creation of a free service to distribute posters on campus, and distribution of a student activities cal endar (which students found on their doorsteps yesterday...
College administrators followed a traditional--and reprehensible--path by railroading the new "kiosk rule" through the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) in an "emergency" meeting during reading period last spring. The kiosks greeted students as a fait accompli this fall, and despite objections by many undergraduate organizations, administrators have given every indication they will enforce the rule through warnings, fines and, ultimately, revocation of official privileges from disobedient organizations...
...undergraduate organizations stand together, however, the "kiosk rule" must fall. It is too late to rip the kiosks out of the ground, but student groups can demand that the prohibition of posters on walls be dropped and that the kiosks be properly maintained to eliminate piles of old, unreadable notices...
...CHUL and College administrators refuse to change the kiosk rule, undergraduate organizations should band together and hang their signs wherever they please--on walls, lamp-posts, doorways and windows--until Harvard returns to a policy of free expression...