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...year from now Harvard Square will be the site, of the first of three Cambridge Discovery, Inc. information booths--the result of City Councilor Francis H. Duchay's effort to increase knowledge of the city to both residents and tourists. According to a descriptive report of the project, "the groups benefitting from this integrated program include tourists and local residents and the business community and municipality...
...consequences of Harvard's newest housing policy could be dire. In 1970, for example, City Councilor Saundra Graham marched on Harvard and disrupted Commencement ceremonies largely in protest against the University's real estate policies. Fifteen years later, it's a new twist on an old theme: Harvard's reprehensible real estate dealings with the community. Now the city is planning a whole host of schemes to retaliate against Harvard, not the least of which is a citywide referendum on next November's ballot asking people to comment on Harvard's real estate dealings. Either the University should immediately halt...
...similar" referendum, calling for a nuclear free zone in Cambridge, was defeated by a 60-40 margin in 1983. City Councilor Alice Wolf recalls that defense industries nationwide contributed over $600,000 to defeat the measure...
...Development is causing demand for housing and developers should have to meet that demand," says the councilor. "No one should have be able to realize the benefits of the Cambridge location without assuming some of the cost...
Still, the business community will continue to insist that rent control be modified. And changes may be in the cards. Observers say that reforms could be one of the major focuses of councilor Saundra Graham's upcoming conference on housing...