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Most of Bunting's problems were during a two or three year period stretching from 1967 to '69 when her usually good communication with students broke down. The hunger strike in May 1967 for permission to live "off-off," a black students' sit-in in December 1968 demanding the admission of more blacks, and a chaotic, vituperative sit-in in her office during the events of April 1969 were the low points of her career here. "I found it difficult to talk to any students during that time. I remember feeling that if things didn't get better there...
...spring, shortly after the occupation of University Hall, Bunting once again became a symbol of controversy. This time it was for the Radcliffe Council's decision to put 17 students on probation who had not satisfactorily prepared a symposium on dissent that was their "punishment" for the Paine Hall sit...
Cambridge Model Cities' internal political woes first became public in November when 75 staff and board members marched to a sit-in at City Hall to confront City Manager John Corcoran for his inaction on important CDA matters. The issues-two negotiated contracts and a pay raise-were never satisfactorily resolved, but the incident clarified the roles of various parties in a drama that has significance far beyond the 16,000 residents of the Cambridge model neighborhood...
...begining there had been no Committees. The first political cases in recent history-the Dow-Napalm recruiter and the sit-in at the Paine Hall faculty meeting to discuss ROTC in the fall of 1968-were decided by the Ad Board, a body previously concerned with shoplifting and panty-raids. When the Ad Board, in 1968, voted 8 to 7 to require 5 students who had been in Paine Hall to leave Harvard, the faculty overturned this ruling. The Paine Hall 5, the faculty decided, would receive a "suspended" requirement to withdraw. They could stay in school as long...
...Watson distributed copies of the two letters to members of the Faculty Committee on Student Activities and the Committee on Houses. During the University Hall sit-in and the strike, however, the matter was forgotten...