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Whatever the reason, Harvard's decision to contest the overlay "broke the camel's back," Bernie Flynn, administrative assistant to Danehy, said later. Within a week, the letter to the Board of Overseers decrying the "consistent poor judgment and insensitivity" of Harvard was signed and mailed out. Two weeks later, the City Council decided after heated debate to contest the overlay ruling. "As of now, the overlay is in effect with six votes backing it," City Manager Sullivan said. A court challenge to the seventh vote provision began two weeks...
...taxes. They increased the amount paid to the city each year in 1979, but tenant lawyer Sullivan estimates that Harvard still pays only about 25 per cent of what it would in taxes. "Harvard recently has been taking more property off the tax rolls," the letter to the Board of Overseers states, citing as proof the University's purchase of the Continental Hotel and the refurbishing of a building on Sumner Rd. City councilor and former Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, a longtime foe of the University, demanded in January that Harvard increase its in-lieu-of-tax payment, later...
...between the bureau and Harvard is fairly close now because Feldstein is president and has rebuilt the bureau around a younger generation," Otto Eckstein, Warburg Professor of Economics and Harvard's appointee to the NBER's Board of Directors, says. "He has attracted a group of young scholars, many from Harvard--bright, capable people still in their creative years...
...addition to the request for a governance review, the assembly has also asked the University to re-examine the procedures of the Administrative Board, which the Student Rights Committee of the assembly said denies students the constitutional right to "due process." The committee wrote a letter to President Bok requesting an open meeting to discuss the Ad Board. Bok referred the request to Dean Fox, chairman of the Ad Board, who, after discussion with the board, decided to ask each senior tutor to hold meetings with students in each House...
Several senior tutors held meetings during reading period, but Student Rights Committee members say they will request a general meeting again in the fall to push for the rights of students to make oral presentations to the board, to receive transcripts of their hearing, and other reforms...