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...while it looked like Harvard and Cambridge were headed for the worst town-gown clash in decades...
Shattuck says that all parties involved are pleased with the outcome of November's signing, which also included the formation of two committees to improve town-gown relations in the city--an administrative working group and a city-sponsored task force...
Duehay said Halverson's report will play an important role in town-gown relations throughout the country for years to come--even if it doesn't change current policies in Cambridge or other college-inhabited sites...
...examined four different methods for calculating the in-lieu-of-taxes payment. Halverson said that while the different approaches failed to produce a consensus on determining a fair payment, he argued that the adnvantages and disadvantages of each method presented in the report will be useful in future town-gown debates...
Halverson's final approach compares Harvard and MIT's town-gown contributions with those of other universities, requiring that universities donate as much as other schools relative to their enrollment sizes or operating budgets. But the flaws in this approach are that every school might be underpaying, and that payments for some universities, such as Yale and Brown, come from the states instead of the institutions...