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...presence of women on campus is not the only change in Harvard that Pusey has witnessed in his lifetime. Although the University decided to employ police in the 1960s to curtail protests, the present administration has seemed loath to take similar measures in the face of protest...
...that do business with South Africa built a shantytown on campus. Rather than force a face-off, which could have led to arrests, the University allowed the buildings to remain standing through Commencement, giving them police protection and lighting and allowing the shanties to remain up even during Commencement. Pusey says he doesn't know how he would react to such a situation...
...Thursday night, Pusey got a taste of the modern protest when divestment activists blockaded Memorial Hall during a 350th celebratory dinner. "That seemed to be a relatively small group, and I would suspect a very small percentage were connected with Harvard...
...Pusey maintains that the disturbances of the 1960s were caused largely by outside agitators. "You always had the sense that it [a demonstration] was being manipulated by a small number of people who were less interested in the avowed cause than they were in attracting attention," he says...
...Pusey never liked outsiders interfering in the University. He campaigned against McCarthy--who later attacked several Harvard professors--back when they both lived in Wisconsin, and Pusey calls the man an "abomination," adding that he was "just amoral, an opportunist...