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...relations with its other neighbors—a prospect Harvard predicted. Indeed, Cambridge city councillors have since called for a reassessment of the city’s losses due to Harvard’s tax exemptions—even though its thirteen-year-old agreement for payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) with Harvard will remain in effect until 2010. In Boston this spring, after Harvard acquired 91 acres of land in Allston from the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino also called on Harvard to increase its PILOT payments. Before its recent purchase, Harvard held nine times...
...move across the Charles is the matter of how Harvard will financially support its new neighborhood. As a non-profit entity, Harvard is not compelled to make any tax payments to the municipalities in which it resides. Instead, it has taken it upon itself to make payments in lieu of taxes (PILOT) to those communities. PILOT payments are an admirable consolation prize when Harvard takes up land that would otherwise bring valuable tax revenue. And as the University increases its presence in its Allston campus, it must be willing to increase its PILOT payments as well...
Before the sit-in, a Harvard committee recommended that the workers receive more educational opportunities in lieu of a salary increase. Neither PSLM nor unions found this sufficient. “Workers should have both good wages and access to education,” says PSLM’s Daniel Dimaggio ’04. “Yes, there has been progress, but it is still difficult to work at Harvard in order to pay for all the things you need to live in Boston...
Then just last week, she came down with flu-like symptoms, and she spent most of last Monday at University Health Services in lieu of the tennis court...
...Like your mother used to have in the 70s,” proclaimed the e-mail. The students from Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) are attending feminist consciousness-raising in lieu of their regular dinner meeting. In small groups, they answer questions like “How does gender affect your daily life?” and “What categories of identity are most important to you?” They talk about their sexuality (“what’s the difference between ‘Queer’ and ‘gay?...