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...Nickerson-in one of his rare public appearances at Harvard-arrived outside Grays Hall to talk with the demonstrators after Mrs, Graham told Edward S. Gruson, assistant to President Pusey for Community Affairs, that the group intended to stay. "We've confronted you [Gruson] several times. We want the Corporation members who can give us their John Hancock." she said...
...Nickerson then chatted with several of the group and discussed the University's housing program with them. "We realize that in the Riverside area you have to take stronger impact of Harvard expansion than the rest of the community. We don't have any firm deals" for low-cost housing in Riverside, he said, "but we do have some possibilities...
Instead, Harvard is seeking to build between 90 and 100 low-cost units elsewhere in Riverside, and will construct them "just as soon as possible," Nickerson announced. The University has already committed itself to 94 such units for elderly people there, he said...
...That's a whole lot of bullshit, that's what that is. There's just nothing else to say." Saundra Graham, president of the Riverside Planning Team which organized the march, said of Nickerson's announcement. "People need housing now. Hundreds are being evict-ed and they can't wait," she said...
After the group refused an offer to meet privately with George F. Bennett '33, Treasurer of the University, and Albert L. Nickerson '33, member of the Corporation, President Pusey ordered the microphones turned on for two minutes...