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Other cost-cutting measures should include a moratorium on glossy pamphlets sent out to incoming first-years extolling the virtues of the mandatory meal plan that they have been forced to purchase. There is also no need for bizarre attempts at community outreach, such as soliciting recipes from parents. Presently, Harvard has a ludicrously expensive board system—but the least that students should expect for their $4041 per annum is superb food provision. Alas, residents of the three Houses yet to be renovated are paying top dollar for substandard service...
About 45 people who live in the Agassiz neighborhood around the North Yard voted unanimously to take a less contentious route than other areas of Cambridge and to seek a building moratorium from the City Council only as a last resort...
Other neighborhoods in the city have adopted more aggressive tactics to fight Harvard expansion. Riverside, the area along the Charles River, won a building moratorium from the City Council. Though the moratorium will expire next month, it prevents Harvard from building and helped to kill the University’s plans for a modern art museum...
Bloomstein said Agassiz residents could seek a moratorium if negotiations fail. But he said making such a move would only serve to delay the building process, while striking a deal would allow the neighborhood to obtain concrete benefits—such as the $1 million endowment for neighborhood programs...
...whole range of things are possible,” says committee member Alan C. Price. “From one extreme is whether or not to vote up or down the superintendent’s proposal as is, or the other extreme is a total halt or moratorium...