Word: town-gown
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Last week, after a year of putting their heads together, Harvard, Cambridge and the city's other universities released a report on town-gown relations which both sides say represents the cutting edge in how universities and their host municipalities can and should help each other...
...many respects we are now way ahead of other cities in town-gown relations," says Cambridge mayor Alice K. Wolf. "The report is kind of a landmark in that people from the community and its institutions sat down and reached an understanding about each other's concerns, which hadn't ever happened before...
...current town-gown committee has no full-time or paid members, and there has been no discussion of establishing a stipend for future members, Mayor Wolf says...
...everybody's going to say we solved all the problems of the world. If you could go back through Harvard records of the 18th and 19th centuries, you would probably find records of town-gown strains," says James P. Maloney, committee member and finance director for the city of Cambridge. "But we took a giant step forward in understanding each other...
...With the town-gown task force's year-long stint now over, committee members and city officials agree that a permanent forum for communication needs to be established...