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SPIL Co-Chair MaryJeanette Dee, a second-year law student, said she was unaware of SPOA's complaints, but that the group is unlikely to alter its pro-tenant stance...
Although SPIL members have discussed the idea of extending their legal assistance to landlords, Dee said that the group's limited resources make such a scheme unworkable. And by representing property owners, she said, the group would lose its effectiveness as tenant advocates...
Natale said his group will "raise eternal hell" if Harvard does not close SPIL or force it to provide representation for landlords as well as tenants. Protest measures SPOA has considered include picketing the campus and disrupting next spring's Commencement exercises, Natale said...
...added that SPIL was founded as a tenant advocacy group, and that a change of focus would "fundamentally alter the nature of the group...
...Harvard's paying for one class of people to get free legal advice, they should either subsidize groups to represent landlords or tell students to change the group," Ackerman-Eaton said...