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Last night, University officials presented to Cambridge community leaders a modified idea for the proposed Knafel Center for Government and International Studies. The new option uses the current site of the University Information Services (UIS) building and Coolidge Hall, with a connection under Cambridge Street pending city approval...
...which was presented by Nancy L. Maull, administrative dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), comes as a possible alternative to plans for building the Center on the site of Gund Hall, the Graduate School of Design's building next to Coolidge Hall. Plans to build the Knafel Center on that site drew community ire when announced last spring due to the project's substantial size and close proximity to a residential area...
According to Power, the goal of the Knafel complex--to unify the Government, Economics and other social science departments as well as housing the newly announced Center for Basic Research in Social Science--remains unchanged...
Harvard officials also brought up the notion of discussing "improvements" to the Fogg and Sackler museums in conjunction with discussion of the Knafel project that will soon come to include a public meeting with the architect. The date of those meetings was unclear last night...
Plans for the Knafel Center were announced last year following a $15 million dollar gift to the University by Sidney R. Knafel '52, a New York venture capitalist