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Dershowitz also alleges that Harvard's recruiting policies tend to bring in middle and upper income minorities rather than those more disadvantaged. Jewett says Dershowitz's charges are "not totally true" and cites the fact that 70 to 80 per cent of all minority students receive financial aid. Jewett also says that there "is a point that people have to come to before we can admit them, maybe Harvard should have programs to fill the gaps (of a disadvantaged background) but our faculty is not oriented to provide remedial opportunities." Harvard is at the mercy of the way society...
...NLRB and the union, in their briefs to the court, however, remain skeptical of this argument. They point out that according to a survey of cafeteria use, less than 2 per cent of users of the cafeteria were the patients at Beth Israel, while at least 77 per cent of the users were employees. They also argued in their briefs that the cafeteria was physically removed by a corridor from the main lobby of the hospital, and that the hospital administration often used the cafeteria to distribute literature of its own, including the employee newsletter, which represented the management point...
Fair Share says the requested payment represents 20 per cent of what Harvard would owe the city were it not tax exempt...
...assessed at a lower value than commercial property, the reasoning being that businesses can afford to make higher payments than homeowners. This practice was declared unconstitutional by the State Supreme Court in 1974 with the accompanying directive that cities and towns in Massachusetts assess all property at 100 per cent of its fair market value. This practice, Corrigan said, doubles or triples taxes on homeowners, and falls particularly hard on those with fixed incomes. If passed the Classification Amendment would make it constitutional for cities to assess property at less than full market value, and would also allow them...
...January when the Department of Environmental Quality Engineering (DEQE) handed down a ruling prohibiting installation of the facility's diesel generators because of possible air pollution problems. The University has, however, enjoyed a string of recent victories in the courts. In addition, construction is now 50-to-60 per cent complete--and that disturbs many power plant opponents who believe that the further Harvard progresses with construction, the harder it will be to ultimately stop the plant from going into operation...