Word: hre
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Planning Committee of Harvard Real Estate (HRE) completed its preliminaries for the development of the DeWolfe St. lot. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) at that time said it had no desire to build a dormitory and that HRE should build affiliated housing. Everyone agreed the building would house primarily junior faculty...
...March 1989, Cambridge approved the building plans. In April, HRE met with representatives of the College and FAS, who expressed "interest, but made no commitment," according to Kathy A. Spiegelman, director of planning at HRE...
...HRE met with FAS after the building was designed and approved for construction. FAS or the College could have sent HRE back to the drafting table, but that would have meant a big fight, and since FAS wasn't sure at that point that it wanted the building, it let things slide...
...heart of the issue lies HRE, which controls the use of Sanders, as well as many other facilities on campus. HRE rents Sanders to many organizations with no connection to Harvard whose budgets are far beyond those of student organizations. No special consideration is given to student organizations, despite the fact that Sanders is one of only two large performance halls open to undergraduates...
Instead it would seem that HRE is solely concerned with filling Harvard's already brimming coffers at the expense of students whose interests they are supposed to be serving. Stephen Fleming '93 Lesley Weaver...