Word: shantytown
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While in high school, Theoharis started a leftwing student group, which built a shantytown and worked in soup kitchens--and she speculates that Harvard accepted her because...
...centerpiece of the shantytown built in the Yard two springs ago was a 16-foot-high ivory tower symbolizing the attitude of the ruling University elite towards students and society. The town itself was named the "Open University" to stand, in the words of one of its builders, "as an ideal toward which Harvard should strive." "Democracy--at Harvard and South Africa," he wrote in The Crimson at the time, "is at the core of the divestment struggle...
Drayton said he had some reservations about the scholarship because of its origin. He was active in the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee as an undergraduate, said he was among the students who built the plywood Ivory Tower that formed the centerpiece of Harvard Yard's "shantytown" in the spring...
...shantytown, known as Fortaleza, teems with an ever growing population of abandoned women and children. Some are widows, like the one who two months ago, unable to provide enough food, poisoned her children, then herself. Others tell of husbands, brothers and fathers who offended a soldier or national guardsman. Sometimes the bodies were found; more often they were consigned to the black hole of statistics known as "the disappeared...
...summer's violence has continued into the fall. The army recently occupied Raboteau, a large shantytown in the city of Gonaives. They arrested, detained and beat several people and terrorized Raboteau residents. Recently, Haitians in the countryside, fed up with army abuses and the lack of protection, have begun to retaliate. In Tabar, a small village just outside Port-au-Prince, a group of townspeople captured ten men who had repeatedly robbed and attacked the locals. In the ensuing melee, three of those captured were killed. Last Sunday several men burst into the living quarters of a Dutch priest...