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...accept this notion of the University that it is better to read our professors' works on poverty in America or pressure polities while sitting in the stacks of Widener, than to live for a summer in Columbia Point Housing Project or to fight for public funds with Al Vellueci at a Model Cities Board Meeting. The education Harvard offers will continue to become more irrelevant to its students' needs as long as the faculty persists in its elitist conception of education...
When Vellucci was then asked whether Cambridge police would exercise their prerogative to raid Harvard rooms, Vellueci shouted, "Why, certainly we would...
...show that he has the statutory muscle to enforce his legislation, Vellueci distributed copies of General Laws, Chapter 43, Section 100, which state in part that "in time of public danger or emergency as determined by the City Council, the Mayor may with the consent of the City Council take command of the police to maintain order and enforce laws...
Other sections of the statute would increase the size of the narcotics squad, which now numbers five, and would assign a police officer to investigate drug traffic within the Cambridge schools. Vellueci specifically mentioned putting two specially trained policemen and one policewoman in Harvard Square on a 24-hour basis...
...Vellueci lashed out at the Harvard and M.I.T. health centers for their policy of not treating non-university addicts. He said that the Cambridge Hospital will treat Harvard or M.I.T. men for drugs and that these universities should in turn make their beds available. In addition, Dr. James B. Hartgering, Cambridge Commissioner of Public Health, stated that in May, only eight addicts were seen in the emergency room but "now we are seeing more than 60 individuals a month with the primary diagnosis of drug abuse." His letter termed the drug problem one of "epidemic proportions...