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Irish and Italian politicians, angered by the Kennedy School’s decision, retaliated by changing the name of the street fronting the school from Boylston St. to John F. Kennedy St. so that the name “Kennedy” would still appear on the school?...
The decision by the city council to protect the Kennedy name was part of a desire to distance the left from anti-Catholicism, according to Cambridge political analyst Glenn S. Koocher ’71.
“Bigotry against Catholics was the anti-Semitism of the left and that kind of played out in Cambridge a bit,” said Koocher, who is a former Crimson writer. “So naming the street for Kennedy was a City Council action to say...
Current Kennedy School Dean David T. Ellwood ’75 said that the reception to the most recent name change has been very positive.
“I have heard from literally hundreds and hundreds of alumni and others and so forth and I would say 99.8 percent are positive,” Ellwood said in a phone interview. “No one has said it is retreating from the Kennedy name, and...