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Last week’s Faculty meeting, at which professors involved in Allston planning gave a presentation to their colleagues, provides some encouraging evidence that those Faculty members doing the planning are moving in the right direction and asking the right questions, and for that we are thankful. If making Allston vibrant and better integrated into the larger Harvard community necessitates a substantial undergraduate presence, the University is no doubt obliged to consider relocating some Houses...
...hope is, however, that this relocation does not come at the expense of an already disjointed and divided undergraduate community. And while there are still too many outstanding concerns to know whether Allston will truly solve the perennial problems of student life or will only compound them, we are indisputably pleased with the progress...
Building on the report released in May, the Faculty presentation last week confirmed that many of our primary concerns about Allston planning are at least being addressed. Harvard has an opportunity to reinvent its modern undergraduate life with a contiguous and balanced campus; within reach is the elimination of weepy, freshly assigned first-year blocking groups sulking their way to Annenberg to grudgingly claim their Quad House t-shirts. Accordingly, we’re glad to see that plans currently include a minimum of two to three Houses built across the river—a replacement for the Quad Houses?...
...Allston campus with anything less than a commanding undergraduate presence would be an insufferable, excruciating exile to those placed there, and an Allston campus that does not replace the Quad but amounts to a third severed satellite community would be equally disastrous. So the decision to have a substantial number Houses across the river is welcome news—and helpful in banishing the bogeyman of being “Allstonned.” As we have stated in the past, if Allston is going to be inhabited by undergraduates, a “critical mass” of students...
Fitting with this philosophy of the undergraduate’s vital role, the presenters also reiterated that proposals for an undergraduate student center in Allston are under serious consideration. Such a building has the potential to fuse together the broken shards of a fractured student population that yearns for unity, conviviality and common spaces for extracurricular pursuits. This page has called for the University to construct a student center since time immemorial. There is a desperate need for performance, practice and meeting space on campus, and a student center—if properly planned—will solve that problem...