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...Kenneth Erickson '69 is one good reason to believe that nothing much has changed in the way Harvard thinks about the community. His story began when Harvard representatives were meeting with the neighbors about University Place; in fact, his escapades on behalf of the University came after most of the precedent-setting negotiations. Erickson is a lawyer with the Boston firm of Ropes and Gray, and a part of the briefcase corps that helps Harvard deal with its tenant problems. Specifically, he had worked to secure the evictions of tenants from 7 Sumner...
...next assignment for the legal staff--and in particular, Erickson--turned out to be 122 Mt. Auburn St., an apartment building located--ironically--next door to the proposed University Place development. There, Harvard was again seeking to empty a building, although this time only for long enough to renovate--and substantially raise the rents. Tenants, of course, were worried, and on May 8 they filed a complaint with city Rent Board officials accusing the University of violating city law in its attempt to rid the building of occupants. The complaint was reported in the newspapers, and so was one other...
...Paul Erickson, the Quincy House librarian, who is doing doctoral research on Herman Melville and American literature, does not qualify his enthusiasm for the collection. "We have to do our bit to keep up the great traditions of Western literature," he says. "I learned to read from comic books and I can see that the more distinguished students at Quincy House did too. It shows; they're got the right"--he searches for the word--"pizazz...
...group of seniors sunning themselves outside the library steps bear out Erickson's words. "The only time I go into the library is to check out the comics," says one. He pauses, and then corrects himself: "I guess I read National Lampoon there, too." "You don't study in the library," volunteers another. "You take breaks. And the incentive to take breaks is there...
MARRIED. Joseph Granville, 58, flamboyant Wall Street analyst and publisher of the Granville Market Letter (circ. 13,000), whose investment advice in January to "sell everything" was followed by a 23.80-point plunge in the Dow Jones average; and Karen Erickson, 38, a commercial artist; he for the third time, she for the first; in Kansas City...