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...what has become virtually an annual event, however, the last session of the state legislature defeated a bill to build the Patriots a permanent stadium because the legislators could not agree on plans for financing the stadium. As has also become customary, the legislature then tossed the ball to Harvard, approving Bartley's proposal to have a commission open negotiations with Harvard on the matter...
...argument for actions such as those of the November Action Coalition (NAC) is that certain projects within a university should be "stopped" because they serve an evil function-usually aiding the United States in suppressing people's liberation movements throughout the world. The task of radicals, therefore, is to build a movement which will become powerful enough to "stop" those projects. Tactics-violent or non-violent-cannot be considered on an a priori basis. but only in terms of what will most aid the building of the movement at a given point...
...that land and they're not going to be paying any taxes to the city. No they're not going to pay any taxes, you're going to have to take care of that. You know there have been five tax increases since they announced they were going to build the NASA center here. There are already eight hundred technicians working there and there are going to be five thousand more. Those people are going to be making better salaries than you and they're going to be outbidding you for your own homes, or else they're going...
UNIVERSITY policy toward its urban environment emerged as the sleeper of the April events. Individuals had obviously been concerned and Professor Wilson had completed his report but the issue was not a focus of popular attention. April did draw out of the administration a commitment to build low cost housing in Boston and Cambridge. However, this commitment might well have been secured without disrupting the University. The anti-ROTC campaign launched by the left during the fall had culminated in February in the faculty decision which in effect abolished ROTC. A similar campaign might have worked in the case...
Beyond the immediate problems caused by inflation and tight money, there are other, longer-term reasons for the trouble in housing. The home-building industry is like a sprawling Gulliver, pinned down by gremlins. The industry is snarled in a tangle of little, mostly local restraints that make houses and apartments cost more than they should. A modern Mr. Blandings who tries to build or buy his dream house often finds the experience turning into a bad trip. Among the difficulties that he faces...