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Walking through Harvard Yard this fall, it is hard to miss the brightly-colored chairs ordered by University President Drew G. Faust’s common spaces initiative, but the performing artists meant to entertain those sitting in the chairs are not always so obvious...
Brian D. Goldstein, a student at the Graduate School of Design and a member of the Committee on Common Spaces said that providing for performances has always been a major element of the committee’s plan. For the yard as a common space to be successful, he said, there needs to be more than just chairs, and the performers and food carts are an effort to make the space more attractive...
Faust’s initiative also aims to provide a common space that is more open to people outside Harvard, unlike the Harvard-centric Lamont Café and Cambridge Queen’s Head...
Though one student said that the space is too open and criticized the fact that it attracts more than just the Harvard community, Lizabeth Cohen, a professor of American studies and head of the committee on common space said that “if people in the community want to sit down that is fine. We have open gates, we are not living behind bars...