Word: tented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although MIT officials yesterday negotiated for three hours with representatives of Tent City, there are no easy solutions in sight for the evicted homeless squatters...
Activists said that community pressure and national press attention have forced MIT to negotiate with the homeless. "It would not have happened without Tent City," said David J. Glenn, an MIT graduate student and advocate for the homeless...
...added fuel to the fire this week, when it paid for a $2000 full-page advertisement in the Cambridge Chronicle outlining MIT's standpoint on the Tent City issue. The ad also criticized a Chronicle editorial that had faulted MIT for its handling of the eviction, which led to the arrest of 10 people...
They did not "quickly drop their beliefs." Nobody has forgotten about South Africa. But for the moment, former divestment activists are working elsewhere--from the Dukakis campaign, to the Redcliffe Women's Center, to the Tent City support group, to the AIDS forum, to, yes Jeff, the clerical and technical workers' union drive...
...Yale will use the money to provide a tent and hot dogs and hamburgers," Lee said. "The tent is right next to the stadium, and last year...