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...fasters. This risk relates to the possible loss of profits from lucrative investments in South Africa. The Harvard administration also risks the loss of friends among the American power elites who, through either outright sympathy with South Africa's fascist and racist ways or just plain callous indifference, will sever connections with a Harvard that risks some of its wealth in order to save its soul. We will forever be ashamed of a Harvard that defines its self-interest so callously that it is incapable of matching the moral threat of divestiture fasters. Rita Breen. Executive Officer Committee on African...
...addition to housing, many University facilities are inaccessible. Students with impaired mobility, for example, cannot utilize such buildings as Sever Hall, Emerson Hall, and the second floor of Harvard Hall. The Science Center lecture rooms, though classified by the University as accessible, offer only limited space for a few wheelchairs--none of the seats can be reached. Located in University Hall, even the office of Thomas E. Crooks, faculty coordinator for handicapped students, is inaccessible, a situation ABLE President Lisa Chertkov '85 calls "completely unforgivable...
...buildings that have recently undergone major construction, including Sever Hall and Lowell and Winthrop Houses, special precautions against asbestos were also installed, officials said...
Construction officials attributed the false alarms to a surge in water pressure occurring when the main leading to Sever Hall was turned...
...main was connected with other buildings," explained John J. Cusak, superintendent of the Cambridge Water Department The lowered pressure in Sever created a temporary rise in pressure to the other buildings, causing the sprinkler system to malfunction...