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...reversed if undergraduates had to cross a major parkway each time they wanted to visit Winthrop House or Widener Library. The benefits of a buried parkway would be enjoyed by all local residents, not just those in the Harvard community. As such, Harvard should not (and, given that the land is owned publicly, almost certainly cannot) undertake this initiative on its own. But given the benefits that local residents would reap from the parkway’s depression—for the first time in decades, Allston residents would enjoy unfettered access to Boston’s greatest geological treasure?...
Residents of the Charlesview Apartments in Allston gathered outside their homes yesterday evening to protest last week’s vote by the Charlesview Board of Directors to enter into a land-swap agreement with Harvard.The group of about 30 residents, organized by the Charlesview Tenants’ Association and accompanied by around 10 Harvard students, announced their opposition to the swap, which would give Harvard the five-acre plot on which Charlesview currently stands. In return, Harvard would build a new affordable housing complex on a 6.5-acre site further southwest in Allston.Protestors criticized the Board for what they...
Both Harvard and Charlesview’s board of directors—who are representatives of the three churches and one synagogue that own the apartment complex—have been criticized for negotiating directly with each other and not with Charlesview residents in finalizing the land swap. But this was a necessity of the negotiations process: to buy a piece of land, you must work with the land’s owners. Nevertheless, there is ample scope for tenant input in many other aspects of the final deal. In particular, the tenants’ often-expressed concern that...
...Eliot was describing April in “The Waste Land.” This December, the Crimson will get a taste of the land, a survey of the upper echelon of women’s hockey, and the chance to test its mettle, in a short span, against some of the nation’s best...
Popes don't go on trips, they make pilgrimages. Pope John Paul II turned these spiritual journeys into worldwide media events, from his first return to his Polish homeland to the masses he conducted before millions in the Philippines and his Millennial-year arrival in the Holy Land. Though lacking some of the same flair, Benedict XVI's first four outings beyond Italian soil have largely followed similar pilgrimesque itineraries: warming up to a million young Catholics at World Youth Day in Cologne, paying homage to his predecessor in Poland, trying to turn back a wave of Spanish secularism...