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Charney also led a committee that opposed Harvard's original plans for the construction of the Knafel Center for Government and International Studies, which residents complained would take away precious green space from the neighborhood...
Last fall, Harvard announced that the Knafel Center, uniting the government department and several regional centers, would be built on two sites across Cambridge St. from each other. The problems attendant to a two-building plan have slowed the design process somewhat. Rough blueprints for the building will be unveiled in a few months...
Last year, the University detailed plans tobuild the Knafel Center for Government andInternational Studies after a $15 million dollargift by Sidney R. Knafel '52, a New York venturecapitalist, in a primarily residential area nearthe Graduate School of Design. The move againangered members of the community and led theUniversity to rethink its plans...
...said, "A lot of people have contributed a lot of money, and I think it will be very helpful to be able to point and see how that money is having an effect today." While we agree that major University donors such as Katherine B. Loker and Sidney R. Knafel '52 deserve to see the fruits of their generosity, the University should take its spending cues not from individual donors but from the needs of students...
...money will be used to fund the already-implemented increases in financial aid, to hasten current construction projects including repairs to the library system and the building of the Knafel Center for Government and International Studies and to support Faculty research. Aside from the very helpful increase in financial aid funding, students will see little change in their everyday lives as a result of this larger payout...