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Nearly thirty Harvard students went to jail for joining protests in Boston. Twenty members of SDS who marched with welfare mothers to the State House were put in jail on several charges of trespassing and obstructing government business. Another nine students who had protested an MBTA fare increase were arrested for trespassing and disruption, but were soon released...
Several more Harvard students were arrested at another MBTA fare demonstration. Late in the afternoon, the District Attorney released all the students charged with blocking a passage, while retaining some non Harvard students on charges of disrupting a meeting...
Then, last year, they tried for a site in Mattapan Square, but the Town of Milton went to court to fight that attempt. Though the MBTA won an initial court decision, the Town appealed the decision to the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth. The appeal is still pending...
Reviewing the history of the relocation attempts, the MBTA's "master plan" released in February noted that the Mattapan Square site had not been the authority's first choice, suggested the Penn Central site, and concluded, "the entire matter is now under review...
...days after the master plan was released, a report leaked out that the MBTA was considering a tract of land in South Braintree. Local officials there protested, and it now appears that the South Braintree site has fallen out of favor with the MBTA, leaving the Penn Central yards as the prime prospect for the car barns...