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...boycott cut class attendance about 50-60 per cent. About 450 students marched around the River Houses, and the crowd increased to about 700 when Elizabeth Sibeko, United Nations representative to the Pan-Africanist Congress, Guinier and others spoke on the steps of Pusey Library...
Cudjoe said earlier this year that in 1972, more than 1000 students took Af-Am courses, and 80 per cent were white. Now, he said, only 314 students take the courses, and one concentrator is white. "The University's deprecation of the department is supported by the views of students who refuse to take our courses," Cudjoe adds...
...height of buildings in Harvard Square as the best example of their grievance with the University. The petition won six out of nine votes, enough for passage of a zoning change under normal circumstances. But the circumstances weren't normal--antiquated state law allows the owner of 20 per cent of the property in an affected area to file an objection demanding a seventh vote in the city council. Harvard exercised its option, a seventh vote was nowhere to be found, and the overlay failed...
...exemption question is just as sticky. Cambridge plays host not only to Harvard, but also to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a number of smaller schools--as a result 52 per cent of Cambridge land is tax-exempt. Meanwhile, Cambridge provides the universities with public services--water, fire protection, sewers and the rest. In return, Harvard makes payments in-lieu-of-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...
...solutions to them are not. For City Manager Sullivan, the politics of confrontation is one answer. "They are increasingly going to find themselves in court," Sullivan says. Others say a little bending on both sides would help the situation, "I don't agree that the University is 100 per cent to blame," Crane said recently. "Some city councilors, for political reasons, would rather see a war than a peace. They University is an easy target for them," he adds...