Word: obu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...December 5, 175 students from the Organization for Black Unity (OBU) take over University Hall for six hours, leaving only after they reach an agreement with administrators. The deal stipulates that at least one black subcontractor work on the Graduate School of Design's Gund Hall, that further negotiations would continue between OBU and the University and that a civil rights worker and two black Harvard professors would serve on a committee to evaluate Harvard's hiring and wage decisions...
...December 10, negotiations between OBU and Harvard collapse. The next day, OBU members once again take over University Hall, this time leaving only after Dean May suspends all students involved and the University obtains a temporary restraining order against the protesters. The suspension simply prohibits OBU members from entering University buildings for non-academic purposes...
...OBU demands open disciplinary hearings concerning its takeovers of University Hall, and several University officials are invited to attend. The invited officials, however, boycott the open proceedings, and when the University Committee for Rights and Responsibilities (CRR) finally reviews the OBU members' case, it does not ask any students to leave...