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...much older than that—beginning with the burst of activism surrounding the University’s perceived support of the United States military during the Vietnam War, most notably the presence of ROTC on campus. It was amidst the confusion and enmity so characteristic of the era that the student government—a body known as the Harvard Undergraduate Council (HUC)—crumbled, leaving the fate of student legislature largely to a committee led by historian Merle Fainsod, the then-director of the Harvard Library...
...Administrators and Corporation members have changed since the Class of 1982 first arrived at Harvard; the advisory group is no longer the Advisory Committee for Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR), but the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility; and apartheid-era South Africa is gone, bringing attention instead to the genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan...
...time the Class of 1957 had entered their freshman year, the College was facing a looming crisis. Before World War II, the number of students enrolled at the College had barely topped 2,700, however, in the post-war era enrollment swelled to over 3,700 students. In addition, University leaders said a decrease in the number of rooms available for student use had led to significant overcrowding in the Houses, as doubles became triples or quads and meal lines grew longer and longer. As more and more young men sought a Harvard education, the College eschewed slowing its growth...
...understood that the heyday for carrier current distribution was over,” says William R. Malone ’58, a former engineer for WHRB and a current trustee of the station. “A lot of the wiring was from the World War II era and the AC power lines were a very unfriendly environment for radio frequency signals...
...students began to acquire FM radios, a move to FM broadcasting only seemed natural to WHRBies of the era. An added advantage of becoming an FM station was that WHRB could be heard beyond Harvard buildings. “Clearly in terms of graduate students who didn’t live in dormitories, faculty and the greater community the original system properly engineered was not available,” Malone says. “By switching to FM we immediately extended the geographic reach of the station...