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...students save their Justice section reading for the ride up.Eight: Make Gov office hours equal-opportunity. Gov-jocks are somewhat of a thing of the past now that the Government department has put its grade-inflationary past behind it. But the department’s brand new buildings, called CGIS Knafel and CGIS South, have doors so heavy that only those aforementioned jocks can wrench them open. Note to the Gov department: rolling boulders to block the doorway would be easier, and they might fit the facade better.Seven: De-creep Cabot House. What do manual elevators and Quadlings have...
Late yesterday afternoon fire alarm bells rang at 1737 Cambridge Street, forcing the last students still around before break to stream out of their classes in the Knafel Building of Harvard’s Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) and mill about a fire truck while firefighters inspected the building...
...University celebrated the culmination of its long quest to establish the Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) Friday afternoon, as dozens of donors and Harvard affiliates gathered in the lobby of the center’s Knafel building for a dedication to celebrate the new complex.Sidney R. Knafel ’52, the building’s namesake, jump-started Harvard’s effort to unite faculty from the Government and History departments and nearly a dozen centers of international study with a $15 million gift almost nine years ago.The complex, situated east of Memorial Hall...
...spent, and they are one means of financing new construction and renovation,” Kirby wrote in his e-mail.High construction costs are primarily to blame for the projected deficits, department chairs said. Specifically, they said that expenses for projects including the Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) and the North Yard science complex were said to be significantly higher than initial estimates.But the chairs also noted that they can only speculate as to the real reasons for the projected deficit— which would be down from a $22.2 million surplus in fiscal year 2004. They also said...
...chairman of the Department of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), Cobb has finally built something in his own backyard—literally. Taking up the grassy space behind and next to the GSD, the University’s new Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) sits on both sides of Cambridge Street as if quietly defying (or perhaps anxiously awaiting) his alma mater’s judgment. And quiet is precisely what is heard from most members of the GSD faculty, who will not comment. But while design experts stood by quietly, local residents protested...