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...there still seems something wrong with staging what amounts to a hostile takeover of a community. Ultimately, the working-class people who live there, including many recent immigrants, are no match for the sheer purchasing power of the University and its constituents. The fragile ecosystem of the Allston community will get crushed underfoot no matter how gingerly the 800-pound gorilla that is Harvard places its steps...
Just as the physical Allston, the panoply of buildings, streets, and greenery, will undoubtedly change for the better, the real Allston, the community of people and relationships, will slowly atrophy, replaced by an ever-metastasizing Harvard. Though Harvard hopes to create a synergy between the communities, they will not mix, if Cambridge is any indicator. The intruding university and the existing community are irreconcilable worlds—at different ends of the socioeconomic scale, with different priorities in life and different backgrounds. No matter how many community-friendly “cultural facilities” Harvard builds, it will...
...pace of change is manifested in an excerpt on the creation of a new Literature concentration. And lastly, Harvard’s efforts at land development yielded controversy at the Sumner Road apartments, a story that bears no small similarity to the recent dispute over the Charlesview apartments in Allston. George Santayana’s old adage comes to mind, that “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” If there is any solace here, it is that the eminent philosopher was, through and through, a Harvard...
...interdisciplinary initiatives in the sciences and beyond, and strongly expanded Harvard’s international agenda... During his presidency, Harvard has achieved dramatic faculty growth, undertaken major investments in an array of new facilities, and taken the first concrete steps toward building Harvard’s extended campus in Allston.” The Gazette—dubbed “the house organ” and “Harvard’s Pravda” by some professors and observers—had never reported the events of the heated Feb. 7 Faculty meeting.Four high-ranking officials...
...first rate. One particularly important task that has fallen squarely on the shoulders of Bok and Knowles is shepherding the Harvard College Curricular Review as it advances into its most critical stages. Other bold initiatives begun by Summers—the University’s expansion into Allston, its revamping of financial aid, and making Harvard the global hub of the life sciences, to name a few—remain uncompleted, and will require care and guidance if they are to blossom into fruition. Bok and Knowles cannot afford to be complacent.The nine members of the Presidential Search Committee have...