Word: littauer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...putting yourself in the shoes of a minority student just starting out at Harvard, with limited knowledge of the student organizations. Imagine wearing a bright-orange sign that says "I'm different," while entering the well-enforced glass doors of the Kennedy School's Littauer building, ascending the crimson-colored stairs and walking through two heavy, metal doors. As you enter the offices of this organization full of prospective senators, governors, ambassadors and even presidents, you are greeted with handshakes, smiles and talk of people you may have never even heard of in your life. As if the situation were...
...what police called a crime of opportunity, a thief pressed his hand on the back of his female victim, intimated he had a gun and then grabbed her purse and ran. The woman was walking alone through the Littauer Center parking lot last Thursday night when the robbery occurred. The suspect fled towards Massachusetts...
...departments of Government and Economics are housed in quarters too small to accommodate all of their faculty or the undergraduate programs for which they are responsible. The Government Department is fragmented among many locations, with my colleagues scattered in Littauer and Coolidge halls, the Kennedy School, the Center for European Studies and our tutorial office on Church Street. Our neighbors in Littauer, the Economics faculty, suffer from a similar dispersal...
...greatest promise for mending the social and intellectual fabric of the Government Department without depriving the research centers housed in Coolidge Hall of the presence and leadership of our political science faculty. If we were able to consolidate the Government Department here, sufficient space would be created in Littauer to house the Economics Department. Any of the other solutions proposed would seriously jeopardize the teaching and research mission of this Faculty and the University...
Although sensible and appealing in theory, in practice, there really isn't an appropriately spacious lot on campus on which Harvard could build the Knafel Center. An expansion of Littauer has been deemed unfeasible, as has a new building on the current site of the Office of Information Technology. Still, if the University truly does work with the community, with a high level of respect for the historic character of the area and an appreciation of the importance of preserving green space, the project could be successful on its proposed site...