The Community Relations Committee disbanded in mid-November when Ebert announced that the Corporation would empower an individual to negotiate with the tenants' association. No such individual has yet been appointed, and the tenants' grievances have gone unmet.

NEVERTHELESS, tenants have succeeded in extracting some concessions from the University. From time to time, maintenance improvement has been initiated. Harvard arranged for payment of their urban consultant. And, last October, after a tenant boycott of the housing subcommittee. University officials signed an agreement which gave the tenants an indirect veto over all relocation housing plans.

This agreement is the only prerogative that the tenants exercise in relation to the University. Should Harvard find some way to invalidate it, the tenants would be virtually helpless to resist eviction without provision for relocation.

What, then, would have happened if tenants had not organized?

"We would have gotten the bum's rush," said Frank D. Williams. "But now it won't happen so fast. Does Harvard like public opinion against them?"