Word: give
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...City Council orders the preparation of a home-rule petition backed by some owners of rent-controlled buildings to decontrol certain apartments as they become vacant. Small property owners in the city say the move will give them protection from wealthier tenants, but rent-control activists say the move would, if passed, cripple the city's affordable housing supply...
...promised democracy by Harvard, only a great name on the diploma and a good education if we wanted to work for it. If that's the case, then I paid them my tuition and they can work with that. But that isn't how it should be. Alumni should give money and they should have a voice...
...supposed difference between students and alumni is that as an alumnus I will have earned the right to give advice to Harvard. The Board of Overseers is the voice for this advice, as the one truly democratic institution in the Harvard bureaucracy to which alumni elect representatives to present their concerns and opinions...
Harvard can never jail me for arguing my opinion, nor do they have to accept it, although I doubt they will ever refuse my money. But when I receive my diploma, I will have a responsibility to give both to them, and maybe then they will listen...
...Huggins, Dubois professor of history and of Afro-American studies, calls lack of office space "the prime problem at Harvard." A member of the Afro-American Studies Department--which might move into the Union humanities center--Huggins says, "I don't find anything wrong with a plan that would give us more...