Word: planned
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...Sullivan adds. In the last year, the University has tried to take at least one building out of the housing market, ordering tenants evicted so it could be converted to office space. They have also angered some Cantabrigians by buying up property around the city, and by announcing a plan, known as "The Cambridge Option" designed to allow faculty members to purchase homes in the city at much lower interest rates than those available on the open market. Officials including City Councilor Francis A. Duehay '55 complain the plan will drive up property values and drive out non-Harvard prospective...
...ramifications," Armistead said. One city councilor who voted Harvard's way, Kevin P. Crane '73, agreed the University had been the fall guy in the controversy. "The overlay really aimed at private interests, and Harvard was just a target," Crane said. "Even after the vote, we offered to plan with the city. They told us it was a moot point, that the height limit was in force,' Michael F. Brewer, assistant vice president for government and community affairs, says. Other city councillors dismissed a University claim that it had been unwarned about the overlay. I'd been meeting with them...
...remains to be seen whether these reforms can be any more effectively enforced than the 1958 tutorial legislation. Bowersock's plan would establish departmental student-faculty committees to review the tutorials and notify administrators when they fail to comply with the requirments. Faculty Council members requested last week that the legislation clearly state that students would serve only on an advisory basis. As a result, Faculty members would serve as their own judges. The reforms will be useless unless the Faculty takes tutorial reform seriously and obeys its requirments...
...Cambridge Option" sounds more like a novel about British Higher Education than what it really is--Harvard's plan to provide low-interest loans for faculty members so they can purchase homes in Cambridge...
Harvard financial vice president Thomas O'Brien said the purpose of the plan is to attract new staff and to improve student faculty relations by moving professors into the city...