Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Afro-American Studies Department is no stranger to controversy. The department grew out of the turbulent events of 1969, when black students called for its creation as one of the demands of the Harvard strike. While members of Afro, the student association of Harvard blacks, waited in the lobby of the Loeb Drama Center, the Faculty hotly debated whether the concentration in Afro-American Studies should be a full department or an interdisciplinary committee. Although the Faculty voted at that tense meeting to make Af-Am a department, that debate continues today. Over the past ten years, the University...
Demonstrations this spring, however, were organized in much shorter time, as nostalgia for the tenth anniversary of the student strike of '69 provided impetus to student concern over the department's problems. Representatives from the Black Student Association (BSA), the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee, and several other student groups formed a committee in support of the Afro-American Studies Department in early April. The committee first tried to elicit student support for the department by distributing petitions to the Houses, focusing on two of the department's perennial problems: tenured faculty and funding...
That selfish interest has moved Harvard sprawling in all directions across Cambridge, community organizers complain. Two of the demands during the student strike of 1969 were for lower rents in University-owned housing and an end to Harvard's incursions on surrounding neighborhoods. Neither has been put into effect, tenant organizer Sullivan says. "Instead, Harvard has recently begun serious real estate investment in the city, and created its own real estate corporation," Sullivan adds. In the last year, the University has tried to take at least one building out of the housing market, ordering tenants evicted so it could...
...Fainsod Committee, although established before the turbulent events of 1969, reflected in its final report the increased concern with student participation in decision-making stimulated by the strike and its aftermath. The Committee report recommended creating a number of student-Faculty committees, of which two survive--the Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) and the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE). These committees and the assembly have circled warily around each other this year, for the assembly's formation indicated many students' dissatisfaction with these committees. Moreover, the assembly has refused to act subordinate to CHUL...
...Harvard's kitchen workers shocked themselves and their employers by rejecting the University's contract offer because they did not receive the benefits they wanted. The decision set off speculation about a possible strike...