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...loss of Daly will not mean much for Bok's town-gown relations. It wasn't until Daly had his back to the wall on the Kennedy Library issue that he started showing Cambridge the honest and aggressive style he should have used from the start. But his role in government affairs is crucial for Harvard and for Bok personally. In an era of heavy cutbacks in federal funds for education, there are few people more valuable to a university than Daly. Harvard may not "own" congressmen as U.S. big businesses do, but with Daly's connections the University comes...
...credentials as bona fide critics of University expansion and the University's failure to increase its "in lieu of tax" payments to the city. Some candidates, like Brode, say that a simple shift in the attitude of University officials towards the community would go a long way towards relieving town-gown tensions. "The scientists at MIT are far more humane than the humanists at Harvard" when it comes to working with the community, Brode said. Harvard administrators are "above being questioned by mere people," he said. "They just haven't thought about their position in the community and what they...
...disinterest on the part of Cambridge-area students in the course of the city's politics can be traced to students' aloofness from the surrounding community. Particularly for Harvard students, Cambridge doesn't seem to extend beyond Harvard Square. The town-gown dichotomy creates little similarity of interest between students and the Cambridge populace. Most students live in Harvard-owned dorms and have no understanding of the rent control problem that affects 80 per cent of Cambridge residents. On the issues that do seem to affect students--like the Environmental Protection Agency's parking regulations--the students are opposed...
Frustrated Cambridge residents this week renewed a perennial town-gown conflict over the tax-exempt status of Harvard and MIT by demanding that city officials find ways to force "the wealthiest institutions and individuals in this city to pay their fair share...
...Town-Gown Down...