Vellucci Speaks Out, For a Change

Cambridge City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci has accepted membership in the Cabot House Senior Common Room, but he's not afraid to bite the hand that feeds him once a month.

The former Cambridge mayor whipped off a strongly worded letter to. The Boston Globe criticizing Harvard's handling of the visit Last week of Anglican Archbishop and Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu.

"I know that Harvard plays monopoly with gold and silver and is part of the world 'money changers', but why did Harvard think it had a right to monopolize the visit of Nobel Peace Prize recipient Bishop Tutu?" Vellucci wrote in the letter published Monday.

"Good old Harvard has had many visiting dignitaries in the past; these visits have cost the taxpayers of Cambridge muchos dineros."