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...feel that the gains to the student from participating in the life of the community in which they live (on the average for a greater number of years than the non-student) far outweigh any disadvantages. Ronald Cohen '58 Executive Director Cambridge Civic Association John Brode '52 Democratic City Committee
...Cohen, a member of the Cambridge Civic Association, which backed the order, said later: "We are not against the right of students to become a part of the community, but we have new zoning laws which provide for one parking space per individual dwelling, and it would nice if Harvard would provide the same...
...take long for the town's long-dominant white politicians to demonstrate that they are not all that ready to work in harmony against financial and civic decline. At the first meeting of the five-man city council, which contains one newly elected black, a three-man majority voted themselves control of all the town's supervisory committees and threw out the black officeholder...
From an historical perspective, politically-concerned art groups are not a new phenomenon. The guild system, begun in Italy in 1286 in the Umbrian village of Perugia, resulted from the first pressures for social and professional organization. Civic rights were dependent on membership in these guilds by 1293, and the guild was like a father watching over the education of his son: the guild supervised the artist's religion, educational apprenticeships, contracts and relationships to patrons, and even had the power of punishment. By the 1400s artists like Brunelleschi in Florence asserted freedom against the guilds...
Representatives of McGovern Shriver headquarters in Cambridge, the Cambridge Civic Association and the Democratic City Committee have promised to challenge this interpretation before the full Board of Elections or in the courts...