Word: shantytowns
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Campus conservatives called the shantytown in Harvard Yard a failure and labelled its backers hypocrites in a sparsely-attended discussion of the structures Wednesday night...
...instructors who brought their classes to meet on the Yard's less-than-lush grass weren't hoping April sunshine would rekindle interest in Tocqueville or Melville that had melted away with the March frost. Instead, they moved their classes to support the goals of the Yard's shantytown-protest against Harvard's South Africa-related investments. But faculty members and students charged the practice coerced students to support the protest...
Aiming to end that disagreement, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' steering committee Wednesday instructed the faculty's teaching staff not to hold classes in the shantytown...
...move which came five days after most College classes stopped meeting to observe the reading period, the Faculty Council unanimously endorsed a statement which cited "the element of coercion that may be involved" when classes meet at the shantytown and calls such moves "unacceptable," said Faculty Council Secretary John R. Marquand...
According to individuals present for Wednesday's meeting, members considered holding classes at the shantytown and infringement of the rights of students unsympathetic to the protest...