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...short, the floor of the convention is not the hot spot one might expect. "I came here thinking I would be awed," Mary Ellen Preusser, a former Cambridge City Councilor and a Kennedy alternate, said as she watched the debate. "But so much of it is dull," she added, comparing the scene to the Cambridge City Council with an extra 3200 councilors. One reason for the boredom is that in most cases delegates don't even vote; unless they want to deviate from the Kennedy or Carter line, the delegation whip for each candidate simply casts their vote for them...
...among Harvard's critics has been that the University is prepared to talk, talk, and talk some more, but never to act except at its own inclination. "If nothing else, maybe this can be the wedge; we need a partnership, we need a dialogue," former City Councilor Mary Ellen Preusser says...
...seen the university expand into neighborhoods that have been struggling to retain a residential character," Preusser said...
...result of Preusser's petition--a law enabling Cambridge to regulate institutional use of lower-density residentially-zoned areas--is the most recent development in the city's 20-year-old struggle over land acquisition by universities...
...Preusser sees the problem differently. "Fifteen to 20 years ago when Lesley closed the street, they did so in a very freewheeling way by accommodating the council," she says. "This time they encountered a totally different situation. The council was not willing to make deals with them...