Aside from the order on Harvard, the council also passed a motion which would ensure full paychecks to city employees if they are called up to serve in the military.fortune is an odd connection,” Reeves said.

Councillor Jim Braude asserted that he would vote against the resolution with the bin Laden language.

“What troubles me is the suggestion that the family, the siblings, might have some culpability in this,” Braude said.

Councillor Kathleen L. Born— whose name, due to a miscommunication, had originally appeared with Reeves’ on top of the order—withdrew support from the originally worded resolution.

“I think, like Councillor Braude, because some members of the bin Laden family have been generous in funding American educational institutions, that shouldn’t be a reason to cast aspersion on either the institution or the family,” Born said.

But after Vice Mayor David P. Maher suggested removing the bin Laden section of the order, the resolution passed quickly.

Mayor Anthony C. Galluccio alone voted against the measure. “I just did not feel like that was an appropriate way to communicate our feelings to our neighbors,” Galluccio said.

Harvard’s Office of Government, Community and Public Affairs responded to the order by faxing information about the bin Laden scholarships and the non-terrorist members of the family to City Hall. “What we’ve done is we’re sending around to the city councillors the same background factual material that we sent to the media,” said Travis McCready, director of community affairs, just before the meeting.

Aside from the order on Harvard, the council also passed a motion which would ensure full paychecks to city employees if they are called up to serve in the military.

—Staff writer Lauren R. Dorgan can be reached at dorgan@fas.harvard.edu.