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The Cambridge City Council voted at its meeting last night to appropriate a $1.3 million-dollar gift from Harvard for the Harvard Square Enhancement Project. The city’s project, which faced funding difficulties, aims to make the Square more pedestrian-friendly. Harvard’s gift will help...
“As with most divestment actions, the symbolic value is also significant and the intent is to catalyze similar action among a wider spectrum of investors, decision-makers, elected officials and the public,” wrote Davis.
University of California spokesman Trey Davis wrote in an e-mail that the divestment would target between $29 million and $2.6 billion, a small fraction of the $66 billion endowment held across the system’s 10 campuses.
The move wasn’t universally popular across the system. For instance, a senior history major at the system’s Davis campus wrote in a column for the UC-Berkeley student newspaper, the Daily Californian, that divestment would divert funds from reconstruction efforts in the war-torn...
In order to reduce the number of rodents in the city, the Cambridge City Council has decided to change its rules about garbage collection and storage. After April 3, residents will not be allowed to leave plastic garbage bags outside overnight for morning collection. According to notifications received by Cambridge...