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...Pledge, which proved a major victory for Harvard’s environmentally minded students. In a letter to the Harvard community in late September, Faust highlighted the need to seek environmental reforms even beyond our own our campus. For instance, in describing campus expansion efforts across the Charles in Allston, Faust stressed her hope that Allston’s green example would serve as an example for the community beyond. “Every one of us has a stake in the outcome of these efforts—and a role to play in their success,” Faust...
...class is the brain-child of Jacoby, and it will be taught by Michael Russem, a local printer and book designer who is the press’s first visiting artist. The class consists of a series of lectures and workshops, as well as trips to Firefly Press in Allston, a modern letterpress shop, and to Houghton Library. Russem was initially worried that there wouldn’t be enough demand for the course. But after registration closed Sunday night and there were enough applications to fill the class three times over, his concern turned to the Press itself. Years...
...think there has been a greater recognition of the importance of these disciplines,” Venky said. “Engineering now figures prominently—from the University Web site to the planning in Allston...
...reduce greenhouse gas emissions at Harvard. Last December, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced it would seek to reduce its emissions to 11 percent below 1990 levels by 2020. A few months earlier, Harvard entered into a binding agreement with Massachusetts to keep future carbon emissions from its Allston campus at 30 percent of the national standard for a similar project in exchange for a potentially speedier approval process for campus construction. PIM(P)co MY BAILOUT Less than a year after leaving Harvard to return to a wealthy private financial fund, Mohamed A. El-Erian said...
...Allston residents voiced strong concerns about traffic problems caused by growth and institutional expansion despite reassurances by Harvard and Boston representatives that solutions were at hand during last night’s Community-wide Plan meeting on transportation. Both Harvard and Boston officials presented plans that focused on expansions of bicycle lanes, bus lanes, and pedestrian-friendly streets in order to make Allston a more accessible, less automobile-dependent neighborhood. City transportation experts also suggested introducing “mobility hubs” on Allston streets, roadside centers that would provide opportunities for bicycle rentals and car-pooling. Although...