Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Board meeting last night, Robert A. Goodin '68, co-chairman of the program, said that the Center's administration was "not responsive to the needs of the community--leaving our program only tenuous justification for working under their auspices." About fifteen residents of the neighborhood came to the meeting to support the demands of the PBH chairmen. One disgruntled resident said, "if PBH pulled out, all the Center would have to do is heat its offices...
...member of the Board, which includes Mrs. Pusey, said she wanted the neighborhood to take over control of the center, but did not feel threatened by the "blackmail situation set up by PBH." The Board did not resolve the confrontation beyond forming a Board-community committee to discuss recruiting young men and women from the neighborhood to work in the center...
Much of Olesen's fire was reserved for Harvard and M.I.T. He dredged up an article last spring that called his neighborhood "a model area for slum renewal," and read the whole thing to the Committee. He attacked the Model Cities program as "Another attempt by the Universities to act as God and take over these areas." "I'm just one voice, a poor guy from the corner drugstore," he said, "but I have to fight this thing...
...canvass for the Cambridge Neighborhood Committee on Vietnam, I got the shortest haircut I have had since high school and my sister took her longest skirt out of mothballs. These were not exactly sacrifices for the cause, but they were concessions, and we half-expected some concessions in return from the voters of Cambridge. We wanted them to listen...
...willingness to listen to new ideas is one of White's greatest attributes according to Harvard people who have worked on the campaign. Proposals for neighborhood city halls, police department reform, administrative technique reform, and proposals for new approaches to welfare have all arisen out of brainstorming sessions and position papers prepared by people on this side of the river. Yesterday White began to set up committees to oversee the feasibility of instituting some of the proposed reforms...