Senator Kennedy wants to build institute at UMass-Boston

U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and several of his closest friends have accelerated plans to build an institute on the University of Massachusetts-Boston campus that will be dedicated to research and education about the Senate and that will use Kennedy's lengthy political career as a case study. Kennedy wants to house the center at UMass-Boston because its students are mostly from working class backgrounds, advisers said.