Word: lanckton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lanckton suggested that although Harvard has widely diverse interests, anything that CLAO does for the community is in Harvard's interest. "It's our feeling that CLAO is probably the most important interface between Harvard and the community," he said...
...from its Harvard connections toward the community. It has been difficult, especially recently, for CLAO to define its relationship to Harvard. It seems symbolic that since CLAO's creation in 1966 the director's office has been located at the law school, not at the CLAO offices. This spring Lanckton plans to move his office to the main CLAO location...
Presently Wally Sherwood, a CLAO lawyer, is defending members of OBU in the hearings on the injunction obtained by Harvard in December after OBU occupied University Hall. CLAO agreed to represent OBU, Lanckton said, when its members called the night before the hearing and did not have a lawyer. Lanckton explained that CLAO is not really funded to serve Harvard students, but that it will usually represent those students who are financially eligible...
...However, Lanckton did qualify this statement. "I don't feel any threat of being co-opted by Harvard having some purpose in the community and using CLAO to further it." he said. He pointed out that many CLAO clients are unaware of the connection to Harvard and therefore cannot credit CLAO's service to Harvard...
Even without either of these changes the CLAO staff may find itself going increasingly in one of these directions. Lanckton observed that "the students are much more savvy now than they were three years ago," which he then defined as a greater sensitivity to law reform issues...