Word: off-campus
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...housing shortage is directly or indirectly due to the presence of the universities. Acting like giant magnets, they draw new customers--graduate students, professional people, and hangers-on who wish to be near the universities--into the City's housing market. This year, 4020 Harvard students alone lived off-campus in Cambridge; the number of others who moved to the City because of the universities is unknown, but it probably ranges in the thousands. In this densely developed city, the supply of housing has lagged behind this increase in demand, and rents have, if not soared, at least risen...
...Cambridge City Council gave tentative approval to an ordinance that would limit off-campus living by students by prohibiting more than two non-related people to live in one apartment...
...succeed and surpass the traditional types of slum upheaval in casualties. Clashes between student militants and university and civil authorities have already triggered guns, ignited fire bombs, and broken heads from coast to coast. The latest spasm at Berkeley, in which students and police confronted each other over an off-campus issue, demonstrates how easily a single crisis can involve both city and university...
During the crisis the conservative caucus usually met off-campus at the house of one of its members. Even leaders of the liberal caucus often did not know exactly where their conservative counterparts were gathering. While conservatives sometimes attended liberal meetings, liberals never visited the other caucus. According to McCloskey, his caucus met in at least 12 different Faculty homes during the crisis...
...hope we would attack the whole pattern of accreditation.... The task is to figure out a new par, to make black institutions the major innovators." The talk proceeds to a discussion of a new kind of experimental black university. Its program, as Howard outlines it, would be "a largely off-campus experience organically rooted in black culture," would have "a comparative perspective," and place special emphasis on Latin America, Africa, and Asia. "The experiences of the outsider, of the exploited and the marginal groups would be compared with the experiences of those who had and exercised power." Such an institution...