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That’s basically what has been happening at Harvard over the last four years. Mass. Hall measures such as the Allston “tax,” which raids school and departmental endowments to create a pool of money for building across the river, have challenged departmental autonomy. Mass. Hall’s moves to unify alumni databases and direct incoming funds to the parts of the University it sees fit will decrease fundraising independent of the central administration. And authority within the administration has also been centralized, as when Dean of the Faculty of Arts...
...April 28 Harvard-Allston community meeting, McGregor said that planners had considered building a new crossing of the Charles River...
...University will also have to face community members who are skeptical about Harvard’s plans to put undergraduates in Allston...
...don’t know if the community has said that it wants any students living in Allston. We don’t really want student housing here,” said Paul Berkeley, a member of the Harvard Allston Campus Task Force, the community group that reviews the University’s large-scale projects in Allston. “Harvard task forces might say this, but the community task force did not. The Harvard-commissioned task force has never met with...
Nevertheless, several other Allston community leaders contacted for this article said that as long as the new Houses stayed on the river, away from residential neighborhoods, the community would probably approve the proposal...