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...almost exactly a mile from Harvard Square in Cambridge, the center of our University’s past, to Barry’s Corner in Allston, the heart of its future. But the contrast between the two couldn’t be greater...
Barry’s Corner, the neighborhood at the intersection of Western Ave. and N. Harvard St., harbors no such pretensions of grandeur. Anchored at one end by a low-income housing complex and on the other by two gas stations, it is a gritty and crumbling ribbon of asphalt where two major bus routes meet to form a bowtie-shaped intersection hazardous to pedestrians. But in its modesty there is a sense of community that Harvard Square lost long ago. Inexpensive housing rings the crossroads; in the mornings, residents, many of them optimistic immigrants hoping to grab a piece...
...across Western Ave., the Allston cityscape, and the city’s people, will change. Harvard’s planners deny the latter point, as does the Boston Redevelopment Authority, but the people in the street know it. When Harvard moves into Allston, the Barry’s Corner community, as it now exists, will cease to exist. This is not to say, as Harvard widely touts, that the physical landscape will not change for the better. Trees will be planted, roads repaved, decrepit buildings demolished, and new buildings erected. But the neighborhood’s denizens will...
...Harper and Kirby] more or less separate from the groups activities” regarding policy, Gordon says.This spring, McDonald stepped down from her post as caucus coordinator, but the group remains a fixture in FAS politics.She now devotes herself to the study of French literature in her Boylston Hall corner office, but just steps away in University and Mass. Halls, her impact is still felt. —Staff writer Evan H. Jacobs can be reached at ehjacobs@fas.harvard.edu...
...shoved in my face, upperclassmen were begging me for my e-mail address, and each group wanted to tell me why their club was what would define my next four years. Of all of the myriad options there was one area I avoided like the plague—the corner of Harvard Yard with the Institute of Politics, Dems, Republicans, and any other group committed to political engagement. At the risk of sounding cynical, I didn’t see the point of entering into political debate. It seemed that no one ever changed their minds, and until people were...