Word: gro
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There are four major slates in this year's election, two of them new this year: the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), the Grass Roots Organization (GRO), the Socialist Workers Party and the Independents...
...student apathy certainly cannot be wholly explained in terms of hostility from the community. The Grass Roots Organization (GRO), which consists of people interested in basic structural change in Cambridge government, is sponsoring a slate of seven candidates who support programs for more blue-collar jobs, neighborhood control of police, and low-income housing projects. But this program, which is similar to that offered by the Berkeley radicals in 1971, has attracted little student interest. Saundra Graham, the only incumbent among the seven GRO candidates, says that student reaction to her campaign has been minimal. "The students are simply unaware...
This year, Saundra Graham, the council's lone radical, has broken her former ties with the CCA to run with five other radicals on the GRO slate. The GRO platform advocates the ouster of Corcoran and greater community control through police civilian review boards and a review process to oversee development...
...another procedural issue could influence the fate of Graham's GRO slate. The annual student registration controversy prompted at least preliminary inquiries by the state Attorney General's office this year. Many students have claimed that the city Election Commission has arbitrarily denied them the right to vote here...
Both the CCA and GRO stand to gain votes from student participation and earlier in the campaign they joined forces for a registration drive among students and non-voters...