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After Lue outlined the current outreach programs that Harvard provides to the local area??€”including seminars with local high school teachers, faculty lectures, and student field trips to Harvard’s science labs—task force member Bruce Houghton said he wished the University had come to the meeting with concrete plans instead of ideas...
Construction is not slated to begin until the fall, but during the summer months workers will prepare the area??€™s buildings for demolition...
Lawrence Fiorentino, chair of Charlesview’s development committee, said he was concerned about how the presence of an estimated 600 to 800 construction workers might clog the area??€™s roadways...
...claimed—because subcontracting is more efficient and that as an educational institution, negotiating security contracts is not a main concern. Harvard, however, is not just an educational institution. As the oldest continually existent corporation in America, with an endowment nearing 30 billion dollars, and one of the area??€™s largest employers, it is an entity that cannot hide behind an educational veil; it is an entity that is more than capable of directly hiring security officers or at the very least ensuring that outsourced workers have just wages, fair grievance procedures, and a safe and respectful...
Allston residents at the meeting showed signs of disagreement with the task force, which is staffed by neighborhood residents and is intended to represent the area??€™s interests as Harvard expands its campus across the Charles River...