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...April 1969, several hundred students occupied University Hall for almost two days before then-President Nathan M. Pusey '28 sent in 400 police officers to evict them forcibly. A three-day student strike followed the bust, and the turmoil led to faculty acceptance of the protester's demands, which included the abolition of ROTC on campus and the creation of an Afro-American Studies Department...
...discussion began with a slide presentation accompanied by original 1969 WHRB broadcasts, illustrating the building sit-in aimed at the expulsion of the Harvard Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) unit. The crowd hissed as the image of then-President Nathan M. Pusey '28 appeared on the screen above the panel, and cheered at the flashing picture of students inside University Hall...
...Nathan M. Pusey '28, the 82-year-old former president of Harvard, offered his perspective on recent events at the Law School to a Crimson reporter in a recent interview. Pusey, who drew fire for calling in the police to arrest student protesters 20 years ago, compared the Critical Legal Studies (CLS) movement at the Law School to the student protesters of a generation ago. CLS, a radical school of legal thought that stresses the law's biases toward the economically privileged, has divided professors at the Law School and prompted Bok's intervention twice in recent years...
Community activists like Graham began to openly challenge Harvard. In 1970 Graham staged an open attack on the University's most sacred tradition--the annual Commencement Exercises. With the aid of students, several community activists walked on stage and demanded to meet with President Nathan M. Pusey '28 and the Harvard Corporation...
...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...