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...Tenant advocates praise the students for their support and credit them with influencing University policy...
After spending a year at the University of Bolivia, Kirshner became involved with Cambridge affordable housing advocates. Impressed by the level of student involvement in the Bolivian land rights issue. Kirshner decided to focus his volunteer efforts on tenant rights when he returned to Harvard last fall...
...Dean might argue that dorm rooms are not private property since they are not private property since they are owned by the College. But neither is a rented apartment the property of the tenant-his or her lease is contractual based upon the maintenance of the property, not the conditions under which it must be maintained. The rub is precisely in this realm of tenant rights. If the Dean's objective is to totally outlaw fire from students' rooms, then he would have to ban fires in the fireplaces, the smoking of cigarettes and the use of house kitchens...
Speakers--including City Councillors Francis H. Duehay '55 and Michael A. Sullivan, as well as leaders of Cambridge neighborhood and tenant organizations--discussed Harvard's decision to convert 700 formerly rent-controlled apartments into housing for University affiliates...
Russell says she was forced to support Question Nine, which ended rent control in 1994, by the inflexibility of tenant organizations...