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...city of Boston this week fired another salvo at Harvard over the University's plan to buy an Allston-Brighton office building, just as administration officials worked to repair relations with the community that have been strained by the impending purchase...
Members of the Allston-Brighton Planning and Zoning Advisory Committee (PZAC) protested the building purchase last week and charged that Harvard had not acted in good faith during the master plan process, which requires large institutions to chart their growth and development plans for a five-year period...
Some students and Boston city officials fear, though, that even a partial exodus of undergraduates could raise rents in the Allston-Brighton neighborhood of Boston, where many off-campus B.U. students live. Such an increase in living expenses would force low-income families out of the area...
Over the summer, Nhan Truong met with Terene Mech, Boston Mayor Raymond Flynn's liaison to the Cambodian community, to discuss the feasibility of the program. Mech introduced Nhan Truong to several Cambodian families in Allston-Brighton. "They [the children] lived in crowded homes. Their parents had to work all day and did not know enough English to help them with their school work," she said. "You always hear about the top Asian students, but these kids were culturally disadvantaged and isolated in so many ways...
With $500 "seed money" from Philips Brooks House, Nhan Truong this fall started a program providing in-school and after-school tutoring to the refugee children of Allston-Brighton. The program places Harvard student volunteers into the classrooms of Jackson-Mann School, where about 250 Vietnamese children from throughout the Boston area are currently enrolled in a bilingual program from kindergarten to fifth grade...