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...Vellucci??s conflicts with Harvard began in 1956, his first year on the Cambridge City Council, when he proposed separating the University from Cambridge...
According to Cambridge political pundit Robert Winters, Vellucci??s attacks on Harvard were not merely personal but also bore political utility...
Consider, for example, Vellucci??s plans for the Yard: in 1964 he declared his intention to raze Straus, Lehman and Massachusetts Halls to ease traffic in the Square. Four years later, he proposed digging up the Yard to make way for an underground parking garage and bus depot. And as recently as 1988, Vellucci was still issuing public threats to former University President Derek C. Bok in The Crimson: “We will cut all their trees and all their landscape after confiscating their land by police force if necessary...
This has traditionally been the University’s attitude and it must stop. Cambridge, too, must abandon its Velluccian tactics and hostile politics. Vellucci??s stunts were as unproductive as Harvard’s strong-arm tactics...
...times he banged on the table and argued furiously...but behind all the issues were people...He always fought for the underdog,” Sullivan said. Vellucci??s politics, Sullivan said, live on in Cambridge...