He contrasts this idea of an evaluation with the Harvard evaluation which was carried out 25 years ago. That evaluation began with the recommendation that the then Commissioner of Schools be fired. He wasn't and the rest of the report was scrapped. Since then Harvard has largely kept out of the city schools, with each side suspicious of the other.

What Hayes wants is another Harvard evaluation with local businesses helping too. He feels the University owes at least that much to the city. But this time he says, Cambridge must be in control and must make its own decision about what to do to change the system.

The universities must also take more local boys, he says, "When I worked with the Tutoring Plus program (an intensive tutoring course for high school students) I worked with one boy who had 700 college boards. Harvard turned him down because they said 'his environment was not conducive to further academic progress.' That boy is now in prison. The feeling is 'I'm never going to get into Harvard or M. I. T. anyway, so why bother trying?'"

This is the type of attitude Hayes feels must end. "My peer group really didn't make it," he says. The universities have a vital role to play in bringing the city back together, but the city must take the initiative. "A breakdown of the separation between the universities and the rest of the city must come or else we are in for some real trouble."

He says that education is the key to the city's problems. "If you could educate kids then they could compete with the outside people for jobs in the NASA plant and the other projects." Instead of driving the poor out of the city these new developments would raise their standard of living.

HAYES has a good shot at winning a seat on the School Committee. He is only 26 years old, but already has a strong record in the Model Cities program. His campaign, though deeply in debt, is headed by financially astute Ben Fox '69 who picked Hayes to work for after looking over all the candidates for the Council and the School Committee. The campaign is a pretty amateur affair. Ben carries around a stack of blank checks from the Cambridge and Harvard Trust banks so people who don't have any ready cash can still contribute.

The problem Hayes faces is, of course, how to get enough number one votes to get elected. He faces stiff opposition from Francis Duchay, a professor at the Ed School and a School Committee member, and several other liberal candidates whose ideas are close to Hayes'. The trouble with the PR system is that it forces all candidates to run city-wide and pits similar candidates against each other for support. Hayes never attacks Duchay or any of the other candidates, rather he tries to concentrate specifically on selling his own program.

The biggest selling point though is Hayes himself. He is a tall, good-looking Irishman with sad blue eyes. He has a little of whatever it is that makes Richard Burton so popular. Soft spoken, but with an incredible memory for faces and names, he appeals to the ladies. One woman he met at a coffee the other night had taken care of him when he was a six-year-old playing in the tot lot. He had not seen her in 21 years, but he remembered her. She will vote for him. Ironically her number one vote for City Council will go to Mayor Walter Sullivan, a man worlds apart from Hayes politically.

The campaign itself has been an education for Hayes. He really isn't one of the Brattle Street crowd, and some of the audiences he faces are either apathetic or openly dubious. This is especially tricky when he speaks to groups that "belong" to various politicians. He handles himself well though, patiently explaining Cambridge's school system to people who don't know much and often don't particularly care, and fielding specific questions like a pro.

ABOVE all, Hayes is in the contest to win. He is heavily in debt and is the legal guardian of a younger brother and sister, both in college. "I'm in this to win and to effect political change through the system. God knows it needs it." It does.