Word: mole
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kaplan, now director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women, wrote for the The Old Mole, an alternative, progressive newspaper on campus that published daily during the takeover...
During the strike, the bi-weekly tabloid Old Mole began distributing daily "strike specials" every morning at 6 a.m. The special issues provided protesters with the day's schedule of events--or "struggles," as the Mole termed them--and served as a forum for discussing the divisive issues within the student movement...
...fourth day of the protest, Old Mole printed the infamous 'Dear Nate' letter--a stolen correspondence from then-Dean of the Faculty Franklin L. Ford to Nathan M. Pusey '28, the Harvard president in 1969. The letter had been "liberated" from office files during the University Hall takeover...
...This is one of the most interesting documents relating to Harvard and [the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC)] that has come our way so far," wrote the Mole. In the letter, Ford told Pusey that he disagreed with the anti-ROTC position passed by the faculty, and suggested a number of ways that the Harvard Corporation could get around their opposition...
...course, it was damaging because [it challenged] the power of the faculty," says Temma Kaplan, who was a Harvard graduate student and a member of Old Mole at the time...