Word: town-gown
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...council unanimously adopted the order, which Vellucci said was modelled on the system used in Cambridge, England. The move would "allow a new bridge to be built along the Charles" to further strengthen town-gown relations, Vellucci said...
When Mary Ellen Preusser, former Cambridge city councilor, initiated a petition last year calling for legislation restricting university expansion, town-gown relations in the city took a new turn...
Blaming Harvard for most of the city's town-gown troubles, Wylie says "We'll deny everything Harvard wants from us until it treats us as equals...
...piles of facts and figures power plant officials and witnesses mustered to the defense proved ineffective. When a state Department of Environmental Quality Engineering (DEQE) hearing officer said MATEP could not install its diesels, the University was stuck with a white elephant and increasing town-gown tensions. Confused, frustrated--some might even say desperate--MATEP asked the DEQE to let the diesels be installed. The DEQE did not respond at first. Only recently, when a DEQE official recommended that the plant's diese's be installed could Harvard breathe a little easier...
...People then were more upset at Harvard-Radcliffe doing what the hell they pleased than with any construction confusion. It wasn't a town-gown issue," Riseman said...