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By an 8-1 vote, the council approved a petition to the state legislature asking for permission to lower the voting age for city council and school committee elections. If the petition is granted, Cambridge would become the first city in the country to enfranchise people under the age of...
Monday night, Mayor Michael A. Sullivan and Councillor Timothy J. Toomey swung their votes in favor of the petition. Both had opposed the measure last June and, up until the last minute, supporters of a lower voting age had said they were unsure how the two councillors would vote.
Several Agassiz activists put together a petition to protest Harvard’s plan to move the Peabody and the Natural History Museums from their neighborhood.
“I urge anyone in this room to try and [sign the petition] before they leave,” Agassiz activist William Bloomstein told the room of 30 Cantabrigians.
Summers’ response—a letter addressed to RAZA President Maribel Hernandez ’04 and Luis S. Hernandez, a Divinity School student who co-chairs Concilio Latino—comes after the two students presented him with a petition at his office hours last week calling...