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The petition, if passed by both the council and the state Legislature, would reinstate a provision of the city's rent control ordinance struck down by the Supreme Judicial Court last month.
Sen. Francis Doris (D-Revere) said he would try to strike out a provision requiring all state employees to pick up at least 9 percent of their health insurance costs.
It also called for "maximizing the comptroller's ability to collect revenues" for a $60 million boost. That general provision also was included in the House-passed plan.
"There has always been a question of whether it was a fair provision, since people who were deeply engaged in activities were hit harder than students who were not active," said Henry C. Moses, the dean of first-year students.
The guidelines, accepted by the Faculty Council yesterday after more than a year of committee work, legal review and Faculty deliberations, also include a provision which appears to allow the press to be banned from campus speaking events, whether or not they are designated as public.