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Architect Stephen Tucker of Cambridge who received more than $10,000 from HRE for his work on 18-20 Ware Street and other buildings, spent some of his time trying to find a way around the law. And though HRE eventually installed the required modifications to the Ware Street apartments, Tucker's memo to HRE president Sally Zeckhauser and vice-president Robert Silverman provides a revealing look at one of the services tenants--as well as students and alumni--pay for as part of HRE's daily business operations...
...Tucker's memorandum dated December 15, 1978, states...
...response to inquiries about the memo, HRE officials provided a written statement, which reads in part: "HRE's policy is to comply with applicable state and local codes. HRE has no comment on what Mr. Tucker may or may not have been proposing...for your information...after the work was done to provide access for the handicapped, HRE had considerable difficulty finding handicapped tenants to occupy the building...
...Tucker said his work on the Ware Street building "was one of a series of projects I did on a standing basis" and that "no one solicited my opinion on avoiding regulations...
...Tucker said the Secret Service did not question the Daily Pennsylvanian's right to print the article...