Word: gsd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Pusey and the Corporation selected John H. Andrews a 1958 Design School honors graduate to designGund Hall despite a unanimous GSD faculty recommendation to hold a competition for the building's design...
Nearly 90 students, staff, and Faculty members of the School signed the petition, which urged the GSD to recruit more economically-deprived students and teachers, and to end what the paper called "the traditional exclusion of black construction workers...
...open meeting sponsored by the GSD Student Senate will be held Wednesday evening in the Great Space in Robinson Hall to discuss the hiring of black and other minority group workers for the project. Acting dean Maurice D. Kilbridge will attend...
Some residents of the area may support a denser development than Harvard is planning. Last spring, the GSD activists collected some 50 signatures in the neighborhood on a petition supporting their plan to build 500 units on Shady Hill. Now they are planning surveys in Cambridge and Somerville-and later this year, a studio course at the school-in order to develop a plan for denser development which could get neighborhood backing...
University officials reject another method of financing-paying for the project out of the University's endowment funds. Though the GSD suggested that Harvard could loan money from its endowment at five per cent interest, Harvard officials point out that endowment funds currently gain about 7 per cent a year and argue that it is vital to keep this return high in an era when all divisions of the University are increasing their demands for funds. "If you take unrestricted money which is now earning interest and use it to meet operating expenses, you just increase the size...