Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students moving into refurbished Yard dorms this week, housing is probably the least of their worries...
...professional ones. Harvard refused to lock three of the building's four doors after business hours or limit access to the upper floors before 5 p.m. because such measures would be inconvenient for some faculty members. The administration also refused to increase the number of street lights in the Yard, even after six assaults of students near in the Square in a four-week period, because it would harm the historic value of the area...
Almost half of the Yard was closed during summer school to allow for the repairs and repainting, says Associate Dean for Physical Resources Philip J. Parsons. The interiors of 10 dorms and half of Weld Hall got a new coat, two buildings received new roofs, and several dorms gained fresh sets of furniture...
More extensive changes--such as installing elevators in some dorms--will have to wait, says Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57. He adds that when space elsewhere opens up, the University might close a few Yard dorms during renovations...
Ranging from a prohibition on hanging banners with racial epithets in the Yard to specifications for canceling a speaking event, the proposed guidelines are more than likely to prompt a controversy of their...