Word: procession
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the three panelists were done, students made their plea for a chance to reply. The first student speaker was Crarles Allen '70, who objected to Harvard expansion projects because of "their process and their purpose...
...said that their purposes were unacceptable because "they are not formulated in interests of poor people in the community," and that the process of dislocating tenants was "violent and destructive...
Changing past community policies--or lack of policies--of the University has been a slow process. Throughout the fall, Harvard (and M.I.T.) administrators met with a committee created by the Cambridge Housing Convention. At the meeting, the Housing Convention members demanded that the universities immediately commit themselves to a sweeping program of housing, while University representatives suggested beginning with projects that were immediately feasible. The meetings ended without any substantial progress...
Given the potential pressures from the neighbors of proposed housing developments, their wishes will inevitably have to be represented in the planning process for the projects. Most of the recent proposals for University-sponsored housing programs have included a provision for such community representation, but the amount of community participation envisioned differs widely. The Harvard Corporation's housing announcement said that housing proposals would be discussed with community representatives before concrete plans are developed; the activist planners at the Design School immediately attacked this as inadequate, saying that community representative, students, and faculty should be given full voting power...
...even that he be willing to listen to them. This selection policy seems to have been followed in the past, but Harvard's internal rumblings will be even more severe in the next twenty years if, after Pusey's retirement, it is faced with the outcome of similar process conducted by the men now serving on the Corporation...