Word: control
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...governing boards and administrators, meanwhile, were embroiled in a heated--and divisive--debate about the University's governance. After a Harvard-backed report urged more official control of Overseers elections, pro-divestment alumni upped the stakes in March, announcing the candidacy of South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu for the board. The campaign which followed was marked by some of the most intense rhetoric of the four-year-old movement to change the Overseers' role...
...accommodation seemed not to come easy for administrators and professors used to a higher degree of control. During the heated Board of Overseers campaign, officials joined in the fray, accusing the opposition of not having the University's best interests at stake. And in the Faculty, a new affirmative action plan, released more than a year after undergraduates demanded hiring reform, spurred student protest and professorial skepticism...
...Cambridge landlord Steven Kapsalis begins serving a 58-day sentence in the Billerica House of Correction. He is the first person to be jailed for a violation of the city's rent-control laws...
...Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, a fixture of Cambridge politics and one of the architects of rent control, announces that he will not seek re-election to the city council next fall. His departure, along with those of Sullivan and Graham, throw the city's liberal forces into turmoil...
...City Council orders the preparation of a home-rule petition backed by some owners of rent-controlled buildings to decontrol certain apartments as they become vacant. Small property owners in the city say the move will give them protection from wealthier tenants, but rent-control activists say the move would, if passed, cripple the city's affordable housing supply...