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Douglas F. Levinson '69 and Jean Neville '69 were the two students most involved in organizational work in the community. Levinson is now a student at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, but Neville lives in the neighborhood and is a member of RTH. In an interview last week, she emphasized that the impulse to resist Harvard expansion came from the tenants themselves, not from the students. "We wouldn't have helped facilitate the growth of RTH if, after having talked to people in the community, there hadn't been enough people angry and willing to fight Harvard," she said...
...students did a good job of organizing the community," John Sharratt, the architect for the new housing development, said last week. "They didn't push any really radical stuff, and they did a lot of listening." Sharratt has been working closely with RTH since 1969 and now lives in the neighborhood. "The community knew something was wrong, the students knew something was wrong--so they called me in to talk to them," he said...
...than an outpatient hospital that could service the community. Secondly, they discovered that Harvard owned a large, uninhabited plot of land in the area. Formerly the site of the Convent of the Good Shepherd, the land was now a ten-acre parking lot and was actually larger than the RTH neighborhood. Harvard's explanation for wanting to build on the inhabited land was that the Convent site was "not convenient." Thirdly, a 1965 "master plan" for the hospitals center showed that Harvard had acquired the RTH neighborhood, according to RTH, "for the speculative development of high-rise housing...
...response to the pressure of the Strike, Dr. Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Medical School, announced that Harvard was "prepared" to build "low-cost" housing for the RTH families. On May 6, 1969, Harvard promised that "no residential displacement will occur until a similar amount of replacement housing, at comparable rents and in nearby areas, is available for those families to be relocated." Dean Ebert established a committee, chaired by Dr. Rashi Fein, Professor of the Economics of Medicine, to deal with relocation, low-cost housing, health care planning and community relations...
...Fein Committee was composed of Harvard faculty, students, and employees. Tenants got representation on the committee only after lobbying by students--but Harvard still did not recognize RTH as a legitimate community organization. The establishment of a special subcommittee to deal with RTH only made matters worse. "These committees, this bureaucratic ladder appears to have been set up solely to insulate the community from the persons with the authority to negotiate our future," RTH complained...