Word: cgis
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...most pressing item on Stone’s list was getting final city approval for the Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS)—a pair of buildings planned to unite the Department of Government and its related centers, a project that had topped the agenda of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) for a half a dozen years...
When Stone arrived, Harvard had received all the permissions for the CGIS except for the right to dig a tunnel underneath a busy city street, which would link the two buildings of the government center...
...negotiations failed. Stone sent a letter to neighbors in January to inform them that Harvard had decided to build a tunnel-free CGIS...
...makes two separate and discrete buildings into a complex, which is really what we wanted to create by doing the CGIS,” says David A. Zewinski ’76, associate dean for physical resources and planning in FAS. “It’s tough to have a center that’s in two separate buildings, although not impossible...
Neither Harvard nor Cambridge should expect to gain from such dysfunctional and hostile exchanges, as the plight of the CGIS tunnel has so clearly demonstrated. Hopefully, however, the frustration over this disagreement, and the recognition that both parties would have benefited from the tunnel’s construction, will give way to a more cooperative spirit between the University and the city in the future. As the mutual loss of the tunnel has so clearly demonstrated, we are in this together...