Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Considering these facts the University has a disproportionately low influence in metropolitan government, for the combination of wealth and tax exemption has created a political scapegoat, convenient for arousing voters and avoiding issues. The current parking problem is but one example. One local car in eight is owned by a Harvard student. Yet despite the fact that it has the largest off-street parking facilities in the city, the University is held responsible for the city's insufficient accommodations...
...school situation is no better. Cambridge High and Latin enrollment has dropped 32 percent in the last ten years. Four out of ten children born in Cambridge to local parents will be attending a non-Cambridge school by the end of elementary school. Of those who graduate from one of the two local high schools, fewer than one in three will go on to college...
Added to the local problem are the hundreds of thousands of commuters who pour through Cambridge streets daily, often clogging them further by parking and taking the subway to work. Co-ordination between state, metropolitan and local authorities on rerouting this through traffic has been halting at best, and more often non-existent...
...change which such a pattern effects on the education industry. Their tax-exemption has long been compensated by the importation of capital. But as the community becomes less appealing, employees and faculty emigrate; their paychecks pass in and out of Lehman Hall without even slightly stimulating the local economy. Similar factors apply in a lesser degree to all University expenditures...
...Local Choice...