"Every time I read about Harvard's huge endowment, I feel sick," Daniel Clinton, a city council candidate, says. Clinton, demanding a more active city response to Harvard policies, says the University is getting richer at the expense of Cambridge.

Since Harvard is a tax-exempt institution, it depletes city tax revenues by acquiring property, Clinton explains, adding that Harvard violated its agreement with the city when it expanded outside of agreed-upon boundaries.

Clinton, who served four terms on the school committee and one term, two years ago, on the City Council, said while condominium conversion provides more tax revenue, it decreases housing for poorer residents. A plan of vacancy decontrol and limitations of conversions in specific areas might counteract those problems, Clinton contends.

KEVIN P. CRANE

For years, Edward Crane ran the city. Now, his Harvard-educated son is following close in the footsteps. Kevin P. Crane '73 emphasizes that he is a councilor for the entire city in his advertisements, and his work on the City Council in his first term has been heavy on constituent service.

A rent control opponent, Crane favors instead vacancy decontrol, which he says will provide adequate protection for elderly tenants.

Poor residents of the city should be placed on a rent subsidy program, he adds.

Stressing that he works with Harvard, not against it, Crane claims credit for obtaining a Radcliffe building to use as a temporary home for the Observatory Hill Branch Library.

THOMAS W. DANEHY

Even when he's working in his drug store up on Mass Ave., Thomas W. Danehy is the mayor of Cambridge.

Danehy, who has held the city's top spot since his narrow election by fellow councilors in 1977, has moderated his once hard-line stand on rent control, and now supports a policy of vacancy decontrol--letting landlords raise rents after tenants have moved out.

The mayor, who talks about Harvard and expansion a lot less than his colleagues, was the major driving force behind the city's involvement in a citizen's group lawsuit asking for an injunction against extension of the Red Line. Danehy is a neighborhood man at heart, and though he protested the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority's project on technical grounds' he feared about crime and protecting Cambridge.

FRANCIS DUEHAY

Terming himself a "mediating influence" on the rest of the City Council, Francis Duehay says he is a "moderate able to deal with other members, some of whom have a more radical approach than I do."

"We must imaginatively balance growth and development on the one hand, and environmental protection on the other," Duehay said, adding that Harvard should be more imaginative in use of open space to help beautify the city.