Word: leveretts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Leverett House incident] only supports my theory that by virtue of its constituency, Harvard is held to an extraordinarily high standard of behavior," says Jacqueline A. O'Neill, associate vice president for government and community affairs...
...Leverett House, the atmosphere grew tense and divisive as 300 of the house's 450 residents signed a petition demanding the removal of the grates. "On the one hand, people were terribly concerned about the danger posed by homeless people," says house resident Julie S. Schrager '86, who described the situation for the CBS Evening News. "But on the other hand, there were very compassionate people who couldn't see the danger, but only the problems faced by those [homeless] people...
Special house committee meetings took up the issues and two new student-administrator groups were created to grapple with the security and homeless problems facing Leverett and for that matter, the rest of Harvard...
Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 staged impromptu press conferences later that week defending the Leverett House masters' decision but acknowledging that the College had to seek solutions as well as defenses. "Just putting up the grates is not an adequate answer to the issue," Jewett told reporters. "I think we ought to be trying to help [the homeless] find better alternatives...
Further into the semester, however, student and administrator enthusiasm returned to pre-grate levels. "Once the grates were removed, the outrage disappeared and the students stopped caring," says Undergraduate Council Chairman Brian C. Offutt '87, a Leverett resident. "It became a non-issue...