Word: rising
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...library, common rooms or most students' rooms. And, when the University said living on the 10th floor would be a fire hazard for him, Wallace enlisted the aid of a Boston lawyer to convince Harvard to let him live on an upper floor of the house high-rise...
Much of the inspiration for this democratization came from women and minority staff members who, after being shut out of the University power structure for so long, began to rise up this year, demanding across-the-board fair treatment, from secretarial union representation to discrimination lawsuits...
...gathering--open to all students. The center would boost campus cohesion and activity, just as house life has fragmented it. While the houses offer an important range of artistic and tutorial services, a campus-wide student center would provide benefits they cannot offer. As student tuitions continue to rise beyond inflation to fund the growing budget, now is a key time to accommodate student interests in spending that budget...
Also significant was the dramatic rise of the popularity of the Quad among students, who have traditionally ignored the old Radcliffe dormitories. The University has just spent two years and $33 million renovating the Quad. According to North House Master J. Woodland Hastings, his house was the first or second choice of as many students as any other house...
...fact, helping Harvard recruit women has been a major goal of her administration, and she has watched the number of female faculty members rise to 7 percent of all senior faculty members and about 26 percent of junior faculty members...