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City Councilor Brian P. Murphy ’86-’87 quips, “There are some people, I don’t think they’d be happy unless Harvard Yard was torn down for community benefit.” Town-gown relations must be a game of give-and-take; such a hard-line stance is horribly unproductive. Just as it would be wholly inappropriate for Harvard development to truck on unfettered, it is absurd to advocate what is tantamount to a freeze on University expansion...
City Councilor Brian P. Murphy ’86-’87 quips, “There are some people, I don’t think they’d be happy unless Harvard Yard was torn down for community benefit.” Town-gown relations must be a game of give-and-take; such a hard-line stance is horribly unproductive. Just as it would be wholly inappropriate for Harvard development to truck on unfettered, it is absurd to advocate what is tantamount to a freeze on University expansion...
...Herald, a Scottish weekly, reported over the weekend that “riots loom” in Cambridge (ours, not theirs) as class-anxious locals awaited a verdict in the Alexander Pring-Wilson murder trial. The case “worries those who believe that tensions between town and gown could explode,” according to Herald “reporter” Claire Prentice, who also asserts that Harvard students are so shook up by the case that “few want to talk publicly about it.” (Tell that to the Crimson news board...
While social issues dominated most of the proceedings, a clash over town-gown relations produced one of the night’s most heated exchanges...
While social issues dominated most of the proceedings, a clash over town-gown relations produced one of the night’s most heated exchanges...