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Harvard’s plans to expand in the city and to build an underground tunnel under Cambridge Street were featured items of discussion in a City Council candidates forum at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School last night...
Clearly, HCECP has not been as open to community input as possible. Its recent meeting at the ARCO Forum was ostensibly an opportunity for members of HCECP to hear public comment on its initial findings. But in choosing to wait until the day of the meeting to release its report, the HCECP largely defeated that purpose. One day is hardly enough time for the Harvard community to digest the contents of a technical 30-page report and provide thoughtful commentary...
...Graham O’Donoghue ’02, who was invited to speak against the living wage at Monday night’s forum, said the other opposing voices have stayed silent because they wish to avoid activism in general...
...Monday that she was resigning from the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP), we could not help but wonder at the timing of her announcement. On the very day that HCECP both released its preliminary findings confirming poverty wages at Harvard and held a public forum at ARCO, Hoxby cast a pall over the committee proceedings. She attacked as unprincipled a number of committee members appointed by former University President Neil L. Rudenstine because, she claimed, they do not respect “a diversity of opinions” in the Harvard community...
That’s not the kind of institutional “information” we heard from Associate Vice President for Facilities and Environmental Services Tom Vautin, who made his presentation to the committee during Monday’s forum. Vautin delivered the administration’s rationale for outsourcing. Despite the bureaucratese, the message was clear: it’s all about competition delivering a quality product and keeping workers in line. In short, the University’s current “opinion,” which is far from neutral or unbiased, is that a living...