“There were concerns expressed about the slippery slope,” he said.
Stannard-Friel worried that an increase in funding from the administration would give Summers’ office more leverage over the event. “Given that they’re putting in more money...they’ll be able to say, ‘We’re not going to fund that,’” she said.
Levine and other Summers representatives could not be reached for comment last night.
In other business, the council approved the first batch of grant allocations under its newly-instated project-based application system.
The council also set up a shuttle to Logan International Airport for Spring Break, to run every even hour from 4 a.m. to 6 p.m. on March 21 and every even hour from 4 a.m. to 2 p.m. on March 22.
—Staff writer William B. Higgins can be reached at whiggins@fas.harvard.edu.