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...interviews last week, officials from Harvard Real Estate and around the University downplayed some of the findings of the report. The officials, including Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth S. Nathans, said the building is safe and that there is no health hazard to students...
Asbestos is located inside almost all of the residences of the 29 Garden St. apartment building, according to a University-commissioned report, and first-year students and their parents say they have not been notified of the potential hazard...
...report, obtained by The Crimson last week from a concerned parent of a first-year resident of the building, said the asbestos is a "minimal" hazard, but found the cancercausing material in rooms, the freight elevator and two trash and laundry rooms on various floors of the apartment building...
Routine activities like cleaning, moving furniture, or even hanging plans may cause the contained asbestos to become "friable," or crumbled, and "be transported through the air," the report says. This could present an "asbestos hazard," according to the report...
Several pointed out that the report calls any hazard presented by the asbestos "minimal." Most of the asbestos, these officials noted, is contained within floor tiling and other structures...