Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Long Beach's Lindbergh Junior High School, the idea was to keep out some very bad neighbors. For years, outdoor gym classes have been endangered by bullets, bottles and even an arrow from the neighboring Carmelitos housing project. One student was shot while playing basketball in the Lindbergh school yard two years ago. A year later, gym teacher Joan Reedy had to hustle her class into the building when a bullet whizzed past...
...Dean Jewett, acting on behalf of the administration, is instigating the return of ROTC, does that mean that we will soon begin efforts to conjoin Harvard with other outside institutions? If the U.S. Armed Forces are going to be teaching courses, marching and saluting around the Yard, and giving orders in exchange for the honor and money the partnership will bring to Harvard, then I would like to recommend some other institutions Harvard might join with to create new student opportunities...
...campus divestment movement has shrunk notably since 1986, when SASC erected shanties in the Yard and 70 students participated in the office visits...
...none of these attacks has *** Harvard to make any significant security innovations. While the addition of lights to the Yard is under review by a "security committee" and subject to approval by the Historical Commission, the Yard remains, physically, the same dim and dangerous area of frequent attacks...
Instead, the greatest security initiative has come from students. One new program is SafeStreets, an organization based in the Science Center that accompanies students through the Yard, where the Harvard Escort Service does not run. The new Model Mugging program provides self-defense instruction. Response, now in its fifth year, offers counseling on sexual violence and abuse...