Schmidt said he believed that only President Bok and not vice presidents or Overseers had agreed to meet with the city council and that the upcoming discussions have "nothing to do with" the city's 1979 protest.

"I never heard the judge [Wilkins] says that" he would issue a written report, and "I'd be very surprised if he said that," Scmidt said.

City Councilor Saundra Graham said yesterday that she doubted University officials will go through with the face-to-face meeting Vellucci has arranged for the council and that furthermore, "It would be a waste of time."

But Wylie said he believes a meeting could be productive and that he would use the opportunity to discuss Harvard's real estate policies, which he described as based on a decision "to maximize profit."

"I think it's wrong for Harvard to use Cambridges properties for an investment portfolio," Wylie said. "It's too great of a conflict of interest" with their role as an academic institution and "it makes them too powerful."

Harvard's combined role as a "huge real estate owner" and a university creates a situation that is "not healthy for them and not healthy for us." Wylie said.

The council enacted a permanent ordinance restricting the use of Cambridge land by non-profit and religious institutions in June 1981.

But tenants have continued to criticize what they call Harvard's profit maximizing real estate policies and their harsh effects on low and moderate income residents. Harvard is now the city's largest landlord