Word: town-gown
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...lights will not only serve students; Cambridge residents were among those assaulted in the rash of attacks two years ago. In cases of safety, the University and the larger community are intermeshed—both must take responsibility for protecting students and residents. We hope that a precedent for town-gown cooperation has been set here...
Hill’s last-minute appeal of the construction permit—and the continued debates over architectural designs on Harvard’s other site—reveals a lingering bitterness among residents in a neighborhood whose history is fraught with town-gown tension...
Cambridge Mayor Michael A. Sullivan says the appeal should not be considered a sign that town-gown relations have taken a turn for the worse...
Last December, the city’s Planning Board approved Harvard’s proposal to build a total of 328 apartments in two sites in the Riverside neighborhood—an area with a contentious history of town-gown relations. University officials said at the time that they hoped to begin building this spring...
...symbiotic—cooperation and trust is key. By asking for a renegotiation of the PILOT many years in advance, Cambridge breached this trust. And Harvard administrators, perhaps rightly, chose to cave. What worth the University wrings in the future from this new agreement and the attendant improvement in town-gown relations remains to be seen. For $255 million over 50 years, funds that could be utilized elsewhere, we expect a lot from Harvard’s obstinate host...