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...Andrew B. Herrmann '82, chairman of the Student Assembly and one of the students working on a constitution for the new student government, said the delay would also put off a vote by the Corporation to approve a $10 hike in term bills to fund the new government...
Some elected officials have concluded, however, that restoring infrastructure can be good politics. Cleveland Mayor George Voinovich persuaded voters to approve a 25% hike in their income taxes by promising that half of the money would go for capital improvements, including bridge and street repair. New York City now uses about 50% of its capital budget for rehabilitation rather than new construction, compared with just over 20% in 1970. Says Mayor Edward Koch: "Discussion at a city council meeting will not be about what building we're putting up, but whether sewer A will be finished before sewer...
...nice to know that Harvard officials are so much in tune with the seemingly never-ending series of hostilities between the University and the community of which it is a part. The Crimson of 4/16 reports that the city may hike water and sewerage rates for the University--a necessary step given the drastic effect of Propostition 2 1/2 on the Cambridge budget, but a step which the city council must relish taking. Why? Because time and again Harvard officials have shown their lack of consideration for the non-Harvard-affiliated people who deal with the University on a daily...
...need not look far to find an example of this lack of consideration. The article directly below the rate hike story mentions that "...University officials refused permission for the triangular yard in front of Kirkland House..." as a possible site for a proposed college-wide rock concert to be held April 26. The alternative site is the Radcliffe Quad, for which Dean Epps has already given his approval. However, the Quad is located in the midst of a residential neighborhood, and any loud rock concert on a Sunday afternoon would surely be annoying to some of the Quad's neighbors...
...this week. At the last negotiating session the union demanded wage and benefit increases over three years totaling 46%, while the operators offered only a 20% raise. Yet money is not the thorniest problem. Indeed, some industry observers believe that both sides will eventually settle on about a 35% hike. Instead, the talks bogged down over a bin of noneconomic issues. To increase productivity, for instance, the operators want to mine coal on Sundays, a proposal that many workers, especially those in Bible Belt coal fields, consider sacrilegious. Management is also dickering for the right to buy nonunion coal without...