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...Harvard implement a committee recommendation that all vacant apartments in the endangered area be immediately rented. In previous months, it had been Harvard's policy to rent apartments primarily to students, interns, and other transients to case the process of eviction. In July, the committee ruled that apartments should be rented to families only. In October, the ruling was clarified as a rental policy which gave priority to families...
...University opened the vacant apartments three weeks ago, after the tenants had formally submitted the relocation plan to the University. But many of these apartments still have not been rented. Even outside the zone in question, whole buildings remain vacant and padlocked...
After years of trouble with Berkeley's radicals, the Alameda County sheriff's deputies were in an ugly mood last May. At issue was "People's Park," a vacant lot owned by the University of California and taken over by a band of students and hippies to occupy and beautify for their own use. After the university ousted the squatters and fenced the lot, inevitably a dissenting march was mounted. When the protesters approached People's Park, the police were ready and waiting...
...week later, a group approached another vacant lot in a second effort to establish a People's Park. Sheriff's deputies, police and National Guardsmen arrested more than 400 protesters and bystanders. They took them by bus to a prison farm 25 miles away. Strutting among the prisoners, the sheriff's deputies punched, jabbed, clubbed and verbally terrorized their captives. "Don't none of you move," one deputy was quoted as saying. "We shoot to kill here." After hours of harassment, all were released, and charges were later dismissed. Ironically, the park that began the trouble...
...Harvard track coach Bill McCurdy has argued, there is no reason why rules concerning disqualifications should vary so radically for what are basically two similar sports. Clearly, the rules should be uniform. If positions were not left vacant at an NCAA championship meet, then they should not have been left vacant at a meet that supposedly was following those rules, especially after the rule had been so recently tested. Harvard, then, instead of losing, 52-51, to Yale last winter, should have...