Word: shantytown
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April 15: STUDENTS AWAKEN TO SHANTYTOWN IN THE YARD...
After completing and weatherproofing their shantytown, protesters detail their demands for an "open university," including the creation of a Third World student center and a meeting with President...
...vestiges remain. Students passing by that area for the first time this year might pause to look again. And the students who built the shantytown say that the fight for divestment will continue...
When most students left for the summer, the shantytown still stood, despite numerous attempts on the part of administrators and students to remove...
...UNIVERSITY'S ENTIRE approach to protest has been one of disdain. The shantytown in the Yard last semester was looked upon as an odd extracurricular, and last spring's campaign for the Board of Overseers by three self-nominated candidates advocating divestment was viewed as an abomination of tradition. But pretending that there is no dissent and just hoping the protests will go away is not only poor strategy, it is precisely the sort of attitude that makes people so dissatisfied with Harvard in the first place...