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...Long-Range Study Committee appointed by the Board of Overseers has previously made known its desire to receive written suggestions and memoranda from committees and groups in addition to those with which it is arranging to have oral discussions in mid-May. It has now taken note of the April 28, 1969 announcement by the Committee of Fifteen inviting submissions of such material to it. If anyone who submits such papers would care to send a copy to the LongRange Study Committee, c/o William G. Young, Wadsworth House, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, the Committee would be pleased to have...
...City Manager's committee to study rent control and related issues. The proposal was in the form of an ordinance which asked that "every owner of taxable real estate in Cambridge who rents or leases any structures or portion thereof" be required to file a statement with the Board of Assessors listing the rent he receives on the property and an itemized accounting of all his expenses related to it. The rental statements filed with the Assessors would become public property. Failure to file the statement would incur a fine...
There are many other examples of Calkins' allegiance to classic liberalism. In his school board campaigns, he received unprecedented backing from labor unions and the Americans for Democratic Action. He said at Harvard last month that he wants the U.S. to get out of Vietnam, and his opposition to the war was on record long before that. He has supported Civil Rights movements, in the South and in the cities...
...school board needs money, Calkins finds the federal law that will let him get the money. If the suburban schools are too rich, he changes the tax law to send more money to the inner city. If there are too few teachers, he sets up a corps of teacher-auxiliaries. If all these plans cost money, he tells businessmen why the money is a good investment...
...same formula applies to the University's government. Bureaucracies should be accessible to their constituents; Calkins has tired to move his school board closer to the people...