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...largest and most attractive lecture rooms and exhibition halls are currently inaccessible by wheelchair. Because the Fogg was built long before the American Disabilities Act of 1990, rooms like the Norton Lecture Hall, which seats four hundred, are not handicapped-accessible and frequently underused. The building remains exempt from ADA standards, since plans currently exist to renovate...
Harvard, a Massachusetts tax-exempt institution, has publicly invested in some of the companies doing business with the Khartoum regime and thus is underwriting the genocide. Harvard’s publicly disclosed stock investments include holdings in Petrochina—a Chinese oil company with established ties to the government and genocide in Sudan—valued at almost $4 million. The full extent of Harvard’s investment in Sudan is unknown, because Harvard is required only to disclose its common stock holdings, which comprise only $3 billion out of an endowment worth $22 billion...
...setters heading to Cuba next week for the annual Havana Cigar Festival need not panic: although the home of the Cohiba banned smoking in enclosed public places on Feb. 7, festival venues will be exempt. Despite a lax kickoff in Cuba, similar bans in other countries have managed to clear...
While Vice Mayor Marjorie C. Decker directed her comments at MIT during the meeting, she said afterwards that she harbors similar concerns about Harvard researchers. University property is exempt from taxes if it is used for educational purposes, but Decker said activities conducted in these buildings are not always closely monitored...
...Harvard will pay Cambridge about $2.4 million for its tax-exempt property. City officials estimate that Harvard would pay about $33 million for that property if it were not exempt from taxation. MIT will increase its payments by 20 percent to $1.5 million next year. Both agreements call for a fixed annual increase in payments over the next several decades...