Word: shantytown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This editorial, called "Join the Community," was published on April 16, 1986, the day after students erected a shantytown in Harvard Yard, complete with a wooden "Ivory Tower...
Perhaps as they see the shantytown on their bi-weekly visits to the campus, the members of the Corporation will recognize their complicity in the injustice in South Africa. We are not confident that they will...The divestment activists have painted an accurate picture of the distance between the Corporation and the community of students, teachers, workers, and local residents who live here...
...perhaps the most visible aspect of the campaign against the budget cuts has been the construction of a shantytown on campus by various student groups, including Students for a Democratic University...
Perhaps the worst violence occurred in Guarenas, a shantytown about 12 miles from the capital where the disturbances began. People there formed human chains and threw rocks at National Guard troops in armored cars after the soldiers began firing birdshot and tear gas at looters...
Rioters in the shantytown there emptied dozens of stores and supermarkets and set ablaze at least 14 vehicles...