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...never asked the Fly to pay for using the property, although the President and Fellows of Harvard College must pay significant property tax on it. Last year those taxes ran to $4817.80 for the lot, which is assessed at $26,000. That fiscal 1974 figure represents only one annual payment of the 19 Harvard has turned over to Cambridge since purchasing the land in December 1956. In fact, since 1957, Harvard has paid Cambridge over $45,000 in property taxes for the land while it was being used exclusively by the Fly. (In 1974 dollars, with earlier payments recalculated according...
...spite of the inadequacy of the Allston plan, Charles U. Daly, vice president for government and community affairs, did not come to the Kennedy board meeting emptyhanded. Daly offered more than $3 million of Harvard's money to the Kennedy corporation, to be given through direct payment and land transactions. The payment would enable the corporation to afford the Charlestown-Cambridge split. The offer figured heavily in the corporation's decision to give Harvard a reprieve, until the fall. Harvard must now present a comprehensive Charlestown-Cambridge package to match what UMass is offering...
Carey's legislation also includes a contingency plan in case everything fails and the city defaults. Basically, the city would be given 90 days after a default to arrange a schedule for deferred payment of all its debts. If the schedule is accepted by the state supreme court and followed in good faith, creditors' suits would be rejected. Carey's proposal to raise $2 billion or so seemed to be the lesser evil. Said Rohatyn, who played a key role in selling the package to Albany's legislators: "I told them I was bringing them essentially...
Last spring, 130 rising sophomores were assigned to one of their bottom three housing choices--most of which were in the Radcliffe Quad. The assignments provoked anger, petitions, and threats to withhold payment for room and board--they started a grassroots movement to change the whole system. As one angry freshman remarked, "The housing system is a failure and the University is trying to make us pay for their mistakes...
...burden falls so unevenly and irrationally on various communities and regions. New York City pays a staggering $2.6 billion a year in benefits, while Chicago, with an even higher rate of unemployment, pays only $9 million (the state of Illinois carries most of Chicago's burden). The average payment per case in general welfare assistance early this year ranged from $15.05 a month in Mississippi to $203.34 in Hawaii...