Word: student
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Nothing like the student takeover of University Hall had ever hit the city of Cambridge before...
Press coverage at the time gave far more attention to the Vietnam war and the ROTC issues than to the demand that Harvard reassess its role in the community. But the fact that student activists and community activists could come together on any issue signaled a great change in the way Harvard and the city looked at each other...
...even though student and community activists often worked for common goals in 1969, they represented a wide range of viewpoints and ideas...
Many city residents were strongly opposed to the student movements, particularly the climate of violence that they brought to Cambridge...
Nonetheless, Graham says that the spirit of unity created in 1969 was short-lived. She attributes it to a change in the type of student admitted to Harvard in the early 1970s...