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...issues that students have the most power to affect are the ones that are most often overlooked: college governance, undergraduate education, expansion into Allston, staff workers’ pay and treatment, etc. There seems to be an inverse relation between the closeness to which an issue hits students and their commitment to specific issues...
...Harvard’s two green successes that she alluded to in her speech (while good-spirited) do not guarantee that Harvard will pollute less. Buildings and signatures, unless backed up by demonstrable quantitative reductions in emissions, mean little. Harvard’s plans for sustainability in Allston are concrete and commendable, but they are future plans—not present ones—and climate change is a pressing concern. Faust was right-on in her speech when she said, “We need to do better.” Faculty at Harvard’s Center...
Optimistic sentiments pervaded the Harvard-Allston Task Force meeting last evening as the representatives from the City of Boston who presented an update on community benefits and an outline for the city’s feedback on Harvard’s master plan for development were met with applause...
...city of Boston requires large institutions to submit an institutional master plan, a long-term proposal for extensive developments such as Harvard’s plan for expansion in Allston that will include a new science complex, an art complex, and new dormitories for graduate students, among other projects. Harvard expects to submit its final master plan in September, accompanied by a community benefits package...
Kowalcky urged the task force to develop “a good hefty dose of organization” in the next few weeks in order to dive into the discussion and turn the community benefits process into tangible gains for Allston residents...