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...Monday, a report in The Crimson described the three sites under consideration for the up to eight undergraduate Houses to be built across the Charles, in Allston. Five members of the Universitys Allston Master Planning Advisory Committee (MPAC), speaking on a condition of anonymity, said that the three leading options for the Houses location are the site of current College athletic facilities (between Soldiers Field Road and the Harvard Stadium), the Harvard Business Schools (HBS) Georgian-style riverfront housing, and the area between the existing graduate housing at 1 Western...
...glad that the University is continuing its deliberative, measured approach to planning its expansion into Allston. Though all of the proposed sites are very attractive, locating the Allston campus on College athletics land will yield the best results. This site is the only one of the three suited to hosting a contiguous campus anchored by a new student center...
...this page has argued, the construction of a new student center in Allston is crucial if the new housing is to become more than just another Quad. In deciding the location of its new Allston houses, the University must bear this student center in mind. Without it, Allston housing, regardless of its precise location or configuration, will simply be another satellite student community. A student center will help incorporate the Allston Houses into the Colleges campus. Harvard planners are already justifying the addition of student group offices to Hilles Library as an attempt to draw more students to the Quad...
Also crucial to the Universitys Allston planning is the provision of effective, sustainable transportation infrastructure between the new campus and Cambridge. Involved will likely be the complete revamping of the intersections on either side of the Anderson Bridge, which connects John F. Kennedy St. and North Harvard St. across the Charles. Some students who live in Allston will need to take a shuttle to get to classes (the construction of a subway line notwithstanding), but such a shuttle will be useless unless the traffic-plagued intersections through which its route would have to run are redesigned...
...building new housing in Allston, the University should have two goals in mind. The first is to construct a viable student center to anchor a new set of undergraduate residences. The second, and perhaps more important objective, is to create more housing across the river than would be abandoned in the Quad, not to increase the student population but to alleviate the housing crunch that plagues Harvards 12 existing houses. New housing in Allston should be used to eliminate partitioned common rooms and over-filled suites, not to add further strain to Harvards academics. As the administration looks to enlarge...