He has proposed legislation which would designate nearly all of Harvard Square as a historic preservation district and is critical of Harvard's proposal to convert 700 apartment units into University affiliated housing.

"I see myself as a person who is able to work on the problems with Harvard, sometimes adding confrontation and sometimes adding compromise," Duehay says.

Anthony D. Galluccio, 28, is seeking retention to the council seat to which he was appointed in April, 1994, following the removal of Councillor William H. Walsh because of a felony conviction.

Galluccio is the only council candidate who has graduate from Cambridge Rindge and Latin, Cambridge's public high school, and he says improving the public schools is his chief concern.

"I love public schools," Galluccio says. "They have to be the backbone of our city."

Galluccio wants the school district to enhance its honors curriculum, address the problem of white flight and create an alternative high school for students with severe discipline problems. He would also like to improve Cambridge's youth centers.

An outspoken critic of rent control, Galluccio instead supports subsidies to help renters eventually purchase their own property.

The Councillor supports preservation of historic buildings but feels "we have to approach these things with some reasonableness."

He says he pressured Harvard to grant elderly and low-income tenants a 20-year exemption from rent increases resulting from the conversion of apartments into University affiliated housing.

Craig A. Kelley says his main goal is to increase alternative transportation sources within the city. The 32 year-old North Cambridge resident makes a 40-mile daily commute via subway, bus and bicycle to Hanscomb Air Force Base.

He says he feels public transportation is the best way to make Cambridge "a more livable city."

"Alternative transportation is a burden from which we will all benefit," Kelley says.

A former U.S. Marine, Kelley pledges to control growth and economic development. He opposes a proposed expansion of the Sheraton Commander Hotel and supports preservation of historic buildings in Harvard Square.

"Buildings that compose the historic fabric of Cambridge should be preserved if at all possible," Kelley says.

Kelley also opposes Harvard's plan to convert 600 apartments into affiliated University housing.