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Assistant Vice President of Residential Housing Susan K. Keller acknowledges that Harvard Real Estate (HRE) has received "numerous" complaints about mice since the apartments--which house graduate, married and transfer students--were renovated in the fall...
...HRE received the latest complaint on Thursday, Keller says. And several residents interviewed last week said the mice have reappeared...
...While HRE is in such a vehement spring-cleaning mode, we at dartboard would like to offer a few more suggestions of the types of items which HRE Ministry of Justice can make "disappear." Start with a ridicules "shops" themselves, and then the gray, pseudo-Bauhaus, bureaucrat-infested, architectural travesty known as "Holyoke Center." Then move across the yard and snatch up cell blocks A-D of the Canaday Penal Colony. Finally, squash Le Corbusier's odious bug of a building, the ineptly named "carpenter center...
...Although HRE evidently expects us to believe that the destruction of the original sign is part of their brilliant master plan, other explanations seem more cogent. As Mark Gauthier, a chaplain for the United Ministry at Harvard, presciently noted in September, "Harvard has been around for 350 years. This modern art stuff is trendy--it's a nineties thing and it's going to be out." Well, at least HRE's foray into modern art is going to be out--out of Holyoke Center, anyway...
...sign was ugly and we are thrilled to see it removed. But, considering the amount of time and money involved, HRE should have consulted students and potential customers, in order to anticipate reaction. Of course, if that had been done, the eyesore would never have been constructed...