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...Today, venues like The Advocate and The Democracy Center at 45 Mt. Auburn remain key sites for shows. But keeping Harvard involved in the scene has required a constant stream of new, enthusiastic students, which RH has been able to provide...
...with an innovative, bold proposal, and, ironically, it may fail because it is the UC that has come up with it. This week the student governing body will vote on whether to initiate a capital campaign to raise $600,000 to put toward a down payment on 45 Mt. Auburn Street—the Democracy Center building, currently owned by the Foundation for Civic Leadership. Supporters of the undertaking provide a vision that this building could become a vibrant communal social space (read: party space) for the Harvard student body...
...their impotency at night. Students are not lacking in initiative, as evidenced by the popularity of the Cambridge Adult Learning Center as a venue for club events at the beginning of this year—that is, before the Cambridge License Commission caught on. If the UC owned 45 Mt. Auburn Street, every organization would have an equal, easy, and affordable opportunity to hold events. At a capacity of around 200, operating about 24 weekends over two terms, this building could serve a diverse range of student groups throughout the year...
Admittedly, as wonderful as this idea is, doubts about the UC’s ability to execute it are valid. Raising $600,000 over the summer to put a down payment on 45 Mt. Auburn will be extraordinarily difficult. The UC is not famed for its efficiency or organizational prowess, and it would really have to step up its game to make this project a success. Nevertheless, we are the last who should underestimate the capacity of our peers and the Harvard network. Moreover, centrally situated Cambridge real estate does not come on the market every year, and this opportunity...
...terms of the Democracy Center on Mt. Auburn, the owners of that building are having a dialogue with some student groups,” said Flores. “Hopefully it does not get sold to some sort of group that wouldn’t allow students to use it. The real estate initiations are confidential, but both the owners and student group leaders that they have talked to are all in agreement that it should go to someone who would allow students...