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...loss of 755 students over the last two years raised concerns about the effectiveness of the Cambridge Public School Committee to manage its school district at a meeting between the City Council’s finance committee and the School Committee last night...
...exercise their constitutional right to organize a petition and force a referendum on UC reform. Specifically, we advocate the dissolution of the CLC to a “2x2 system” in which the UC is structured around the two remaining committees with two representatives from each district. With social programming outside the jurisdiction of the UC, downsizing will lead to increased efficiency and sensitivity to campus needs in UC, as well as a greater sense of purpose for individual members.We further call on students to demand movement to a direct election system in which UC candidates...
...print that they don't recognize "this New Orleans." Perhaps they closed their eyes or didn't pay close attention when they were there. While I understand the temptation to wax nostalgic about the architecture of the Ninth Ward homes, the beauty of the Garden District, the charm of the French Quarter and so on, such musings perpetuate a romantic notion of the place that doesn't track with reality. Sure, there are isolated spots dotting the tourist maps that are well stocked with pristine prettiness and antebellum hospitality, but like A Streetcar Named Desire's Blanche DuBois, the real...
...ugly and abject poverty on full display at the squalid Iberville housing projects (average annual income of its 833 households: $7,279), sitting just next door to the Vieux Carr off Canal Street. If the visitors had taken a few steps beyond Tulane University and the nearby Garden District mansions, they would have found themselves smack-dab in the middle of a ghetto choked with rudimentary shotgun houses, dilapidated housing projects and living conditions that seem only slightly better than those in Port-au-Prince, Bangladesh or Baghdad...
...owner of the Harvard Square hair salon About Hair, charged with rape and running a prostitution ring out of his store, appeared in Cambridge District Court on Friday for a pre-trial hearing in a preface to a trial set to begin this summer. Judge George Sprague set a timeline for the trial at yesterday’s hearing, scheduling the discovery motions—the next date Purdy is due in court—for July 27, according to Middlesex District Attorney (D.A.) spokeswoman Emily LaGrassa. Duncan W. Purdy, 52, who is also charged with indecent assault and battery...