Word: tenanted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard Real Estate (HRE) and the Harvard Planning Office are also examples of Harvard's paternalistic way of dealing with the community. HRE has always shunned tenant input into its major decisions, and they continue to ignore the activist Harvard Tenants Union. The Planning Office consistently excludes community members from the initial phases of all major building constructions and modifications. Instead, they ask for input only after the first set of plans have been drafted, thus giving community members a foregone conclusion which they can only modify in a minor...
...N.P.A. presence grows, so does its level of activity. Is a local landlord demanding too high a percentage of his tenant farmers' harvest? The offender is ordered to reduce his take. If he refuses, he is executed. Is a village drunk harassing the peasant population? He is warned to reform, and if no improvement is noted he is shot. Is a local official corrupt? He too is killed. All the while, the guerrillas distribute food and help with the farming. For some, this image of the N.P.A. as a band of benign vigilantes takes hold. But for many others...
...villainy and stock victims. The Building offers an older and more enduring view of human nature. Its characters get no points for race, religion, origin, social position or physical condition. Sin is apportioned without prejudice. The only salvation is madness or art, which may be the same thing. One tenant lectures to cockroaches; a painter cannot turn off his vision: "If he stops it will continue to come, escaping through his head into...
Actually, Harvard has had a fair amount of practice at silencing unruly tenants. Tenant activists can document at least three cases since 1979 in which Harvard's legal counsels have negotiated to silence angry tenants with money or binding confidentiality agreements. The group of tenants at the Craigie Arms, for example, settled their dispute with Harvard, but signed a perfectly legal agreement which prevented them from speaking at public fora against their landlord, according to one community activist...
...University community, however, Harvard's policy of settling civil negligence lawsuits out of court must be examined. Ultimately Harvard damages itself by behaving this way. Harvard is trapped in a holding action, waiting for another tenant to sue, instead of ensuring that the University's tenants get the same protection and services that its students take as a matter of course...