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...contrast to these calls for Harvard to embrace a more active role in solving the challenges of modern society, the university is avoiding the opportunity to be a civic leader in Allston as it prepares to break ground on the largest physical expansion in its history...
Legally, Harvard doesn’t owe anything to the residents of Allston, whose wide diversity spans the categories of race, nationality, wealth, and education level. But the concept of debt makes no sense in the context of a major research institution. Harvard does not do pioneering research because of a need to square the books with others. Harvard is great because it helps people when Harvard owes them nothing, and it is appropriate for Harvard to bring this ethos with it to Allston...
Compared to these leading programs across the country, it is unfortunate that Harvard has chosen the role of laggard instead of leader. Harvard’s plan in Allston is to get all required City and State permits and begin construction of its new eight-acre Science Complex as soon as possible. Then Harvard tells us it will consider starting an after-school program staffed by volunteers, without budget or professional guidance, in an underused warehouse slated for demolition in a few years...
...know that Allston residents will have to endure decades of construction in our densely settled urban neighborhood. We have watched local businesses, useful services, and hundreds of jobs leave our neighborhood and not be replaced because Harvard is purchasing and mothballing dozens of acres of land. We are told that Allston kids are not welcome in the same daycare as Harvard kids and Harvard doesn’t want Allston residents using the same fitness center or mass transit as Harvard people...
...Harvard were willing to become more creative and liberal in its approach, a wonderful relationship can still develop. To start, Harvard could put back into use the many vacant commercial properties it owns in Allston and Brighton. We look at the Harvard Ceramics Studio, a jewel of a program already in Allston but cramped in the basement of a nondescript building, and see great potential for classes, artists’ studios, and retail space that could benefit everyone. Beyond that, planning for Harvard’s campus could take a new and fundamentally different approach that brings people together instead...