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...North Yard, Hunt Hall, long an architectural curiosity, and recently the home of the Vis Stud Department and the Graduate School of Design, has been demolished to make way for Canaday Hall, a new freshman dorm. At the other end of the Yard, bulldozers and dynamite are digging a 40-foot trench that will become, hopefully by the spring of 1975, the Pusey Library, an addition to Widener...
Noise from the two sites will jackhammer at the ears of Yard residents for some time. The structural frame of the dorm will be going up during the Fall, and will hopefully be completed by the first frost, so that inside work can be done during the winter. Canaday will be ready for occupancy in the Fall of 1974 of all goes well, but he Pusey site will be an obstacle to anyone walking through the Yard until April...
...hour to work shifts from 12 midnight to 8 a.m., are instructed to call the police on their radios if they spot any suspicious persons or anything that seems out of the ordinary. In May a member of the student security patrol saw someone carrying things from a dorm and contacted police. As a result a local youth was arrested and several hundred dollars' worth of stereo equipment was recovered...
...Yard and Mather House entries has lowered crime in these areas. "We've only had one serious rip-off in Mather since we locked the entries, and that was the day before we installed locks on the elevators," von Stade said. He added that locking up of the Yard dorms and five of the eight gates to the Yard at night has substantially decreased the traffic from "off of the streets." Several times before the doors were locked non-student heroin users were discovered using Yard dorm bathrooms as "shooting galleries...
...plans for the new freshman dorm, the Pusey Library and other planned construction for Harvard's future have been at least partially dictated by concern for increased security within the University. There is little doubt that all of the future planning for additions or renovations to the Harvard campus will be done with a heavy emphasis on security considerations...