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Student and faculty opinion is openly disdained; alone among major universities, Harvard’s presidential search committee contained not a single student, worker or faculty member. Harvard signs lucrative contracts with companies like Nike, but refuses to deal fairly with the Allston, Cambridge and Watertown residents who fear the destruction of their communities through skyrocketing rents and declining property tax revenues...
...that it has cleared the taxation committee, the legislation is in the hands of the House’s Committee on Steering, Policy and Scheduling. According to State Representative Rachel Kaprielian, a Democrat who represents Watertown and originally introduced the bill, under the rules of the House this committee must act on the legislation by the end of the month...
...first is to demonstrate to legislators that the University is making genuine efforts to work with Watertown in solving the dispute over the Arsenal...
...Steven A. Tolman, a Democrat who represents Watertown in the Mass. Senate and introduced a version of the legislation in the Senate, said that such a bill was needed to protect the financial stability of small towns against wealthy non-profit institutions such as Harvard...
While the impetus for the legislation was Harvard’s purchase of the Arsenal property, Kaprielian said that this legislation might be enacted even if Harvard and Watertown came to a settlement on the University’s future payment to the city...