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...Councilor Saundra M. Graham said she owed the first few of her eight City Council terms to Harvard students' help. Graham entered local politics in 1970 when she led a group of neighbors in disrupting Harvard's commencement exercises to demand housing from the University...
...Harvard Crimson. The Crimson has always been my friend. On Monday, Nov 4, I went for the Crimson and turned to the special Cambridge page and Lo and Behold! I found my name to be in the Harvard Crimson Editorial column. I came across a paragraph that said "Incumbent Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci's unique brand of populism includes crucial support for rent control--he provides the outgoing Council's fifth. "swing" vote to protect the system. Vellucci, however, opposes the CCA candidates' effort to create a "linkage" program that would help alleviate the pressures of development by requiring large...
...person who deserves your #1 vote, though, is City Councilor David E. Sullivan, the Council's best spokesman for students' and tenants' interests. While studying at Harvard Law School, Sullivan got students the right to vote in Cambridge. Since his election in 1980, he has put his conscience and legal acumen to work developing innovative measures to strengthen rent control and preserve neighborhoods...
Harvard is one of several developers making over southwest Harvard Square, and it has also come under fire for buying houses in neighborhoods all over the city. Councilor Vellucci recently persuaded his colleagues on the current City Council to endorse a non-binding order to Harvard to stop buying houses--but his was one of the few anti-Harvard gestures of this campaign...
...only other attempt to create a referendumwas an attack on the city rent control system,which also failed to reach the ballot because itssponsor, realtor Fred Meyer, did not collectenough petition signatures. If passed, it wouldhave allowed rent control landlords to sell unitsto tenants of three years or more.City Councilor ALFRED E. VELLUCCI...