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...residents in the surrounding Agassiz neighborhood remain wary, fearing an onslaught of Harvard construction...
This winter, when Harvard first announced that the cyclotron was slated for destruction, residents in the surrounding Agassiz neighborhood expressed alarm. Neighborhood activists formed a group to take a second look at Harvard’s plans. They call themselves the Agassiz Committee on the Impacts of Development—or ACID for short...
...still do raise serious questions. Harvard’s “position” on diversity has not erased the school’s track record as a source of white-supremacist scholarship throughout the centuries and down to the present day. Many of us have been to Agassiz Theater without knowing that Louis Agassiz was a professor of zoology who asserted that the education of blacks should be based on their latent inferiority, meaning that they should be trained solely in manual labor. In an influential psychology textbook published in 1908, former Harvard social psychologist William McDougall discusses...
Also at Monday’s meeting, the council discussed Harvard developments in the Agassiz neighborhood that abuts the Quad...
...It’s clear that the Agassiz neighborhood is overwhelmed,” said Councillor Anthony D. Galluccio. “They are being outnumbered by architects and planners from Harvard...