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...most part, Cambridge residents have dealt with Harvard on an issue-by-issue basis. The city is zoned for some commercial businesses, but whatever the zoning regulations are in the city, all academic institutions are not required to conform to the rules (courtesy of the 1975 state Dover Amendment). The last time Cambridge successfully confronted Harvard was in 1975, when Graham led her infamous crusade to halt construction of the Kennedy Library complex on the MBTA yards. City Councilor David Clem recalls this instance as the first time Harvard really lost a fight, but the issue was more complicated...
Graham, however, is currently involving herself in another community fight against Radcliffe's proposed gym on Observatory Hill. Her objectives is to get a piece of legislation before the state legislature by December 1, which will change the law and make Harvard conform to zoning regulations. Though the squabble appears to be missing the same venom which surrounded the Kennedy Library fight, the outcome is undetermined...
...although Robert Brown says the merger "wouldn't affect recognition in any negative way," Kain is uncertain about the move's implications. There is currently no professional national organization that certifies planners. The AIP, or a new organization, may try to take on this task, assuming that it can conform to federal regulation that govern certification programs...
...request to have the city purchase the Harvard-owned property is a stalling tactic, to hold the bulldozers back until the group can ask the state to consider changing a state law to make all academic institutions in Cambridge conform to zoning regulations...
...gone even further than the angry words expressed here last spring. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) withdrew his name last month from a bill he introduced last April which would have imposed severe penalties--up to $10,000 a day for experimentation performed which did not conform to NIH guidelines--under pressure from a number of scientific committees that paid him a visit in Washington. "That first bill excited resistance among the governing board of the American Scientists Committee of Microbiology," says DeWitt Stetton '30, deputy director of science at NIH. Stetton adds that the bill...