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Representatives of the Ashram could not be reached for comment last night. Responding last week to Cellucci's charges an attorney for the sect said that as many as 30 members visit the 6 Linnaean St. building nightly, but that only 12 people live in the three separate apartments contained within the structure...
Cellucci's investigation of the Ashram was prompted by a neighbor who complained about the group at last week's regular meeting of the Cambridge City Council Helen Parker who lives actors the street from the Ashram labeled the group a "cult" and made a number of accusations against the sect...
...received several calls from neighbors (since last week), and they've all been positive about the Ashram," Cellucci said...
Most neighbors interviewed by The Crimson last week said that although they were uncomfortable with the large number of visitors that come to the neighborhood they had no specified complaints about Ashram members. Several neighbors praised the sect for keeping its property clean, which they said previous owners had not done...
...Ashram members have said that local membership in their group has tripled in the past six months since their spiritual leader Swami Chetanananda moved here from Indiana. A small group of sect members has lived in Cambridge for eight years in a building at 11 Linnaean St. which the Ashram still owns along with the 6 Linnaean St. structure and another building on Wendall St. in Cambridge...