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...figures that show how student voter registration has jumped in Cambridge this year have come as a godsend to David Clem. An urban studies and planning major from MIT and youngest president of the Riverside-Cambridgeport Community Corporation (RCCC) Clem is clearly the youth candidate on the ticket. That doesn't necessarily mean he is inexperienced in Cambridge politics. Although he didn't grow up in Cambridge, Clem is already a fixture in Cambridgeport, where he hopes to cut into incumbent Daniel J. Clinton's home-turf margin. And Clem is not lacking in support from the Harvard Square area...
Graham is in many ways the most doctrinaire of the nine councilors, unwilling to compromise if she thinks that a proposal would run counter to her Riverside-Cambridgeport constituents' interests. Because the R.C. area is in Harvard's southern backyard, Graham has had more than an occasional bout with the University and she has often come out on top. Credit her with stopping both the Kennedys and Harvard from putting the Kennedy Museum across the river in Allston. And old-time Harvard people still shudder when they remember that it was Graham who took over the Commencement platform...
...form of government. "Under Proportional Representation, incumbents become more aware of their number one supporters. As long as they can keep them happy, they an afford to be independent of their colleagues," he says. Thus you get a Saundra Graham accountable only to her Riverside-Cambridgeport constituency and a David Wylie, responsible for the views of West Cambridge rather than all of the city...
...community leader from the Riverside-Cambridgeport area was right when he said last week that if Harvard had been this open in discussions from the beginning there would not be the animosity that now exists between Harvard and Cambridge over the Kennedy Library...
Some residents of the Riverside Cambridgeport community, including city councilor Saundra Graham, have already expressed reservations to the Allston site because traffic may be increased along the access roads in the community that lead to Allston...