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...search for more on-campus graduate housing, the Harvard Planning and Allston Initiative (HPAI) has decided to plunk down its latest project on Grant and Cowperthwaite streets. A building that will house more than 300 graduate students and faculty, the new construction will bring Harvard closer to its ultimate goal of housing 50 percent of graduate students on campus by 2011. With an underground garage and an attractive design the grad center is a much better use of the space than the parking lot that is currently there. Plus, with more over-21 year-olds nearby, Louie?...
Summers described the University’s proposed expansion in Allston as a “profound opportunity”—both for improving laboratory facilities and for shaping the future face of Boston...
When one student questioned Summers’ decision to export the science departments across the river while the Law School remains in Cambridge, the president presented a vigorous defense of the University’s Allston blueprint...
...said that community resistance in Cambridge prevented the expansion of science facilities north of the Yard. He said University planners had found that even if the Law School did move to Allston, the school’s buildings could not be converted into lab space. And he said the move to Allston would help FAS scientists collaborate with colleagues at the Medical School and the School of Public Health...
What the College and the Harvard Planning + Allston Initiative (HPAI) didn’t consider throughout all of this was how to tide Quadlings over through the long winter of their deprivation. In the QRAC’s absence, Quad House gyms will overflow. To avert this, alternative exercise space, like the Law School’s Hemenway Gymnasium, should be kept open later. The College should allocate additional funding to Quad House gyms, as well, and the Houses themselves should evaluate what space can be used to enlarge gyms in the meantime. But after all is said and done...