Word: neill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Neill works hard at the Office of Community Affairs to improve the once-polarized relations between town and gown. "When the University does something, no matter how insignificant it may seem, we have to consider the consequences, actual or perceived, in the community," she says...
...Neill's philosophy of community relations, she says, is based on recognizing the need to include every voice in the community in a non-bureaucratic way, and to understand Cantabrigians' ambiguous feelings towards Harvard--a mixture of pride and resentment...
...creating a committee made up of representatives from surrounding neighborhoods, O'Neill has pioneered an elaborate system of information-sharing among community leaders and Harvard officials, to prove to them both that "there is very little difference between a `Harvard person' and a `community person'," she says...
...When O'Neill wants something done, she has no qualms about doing it herself, even if it involves a lot of garbage. One day, to prove a point about making the Square cleaner, she rolled up her sleeves and joined a group of inner city kids picking up trash, one Cambridge resident recalls...
...most valuable player when it comes to Harvard relations," says John Shattuck, vice president for government and community affairs. Shattuck and several community activists attributed to O'Neill a deal in which Harvard and a community committee banded together against a private developer and succeeded in dramatically changing the plans for the condominium development across from the post office on Mt. Auburn...