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Currently, two courses in science are required by the Core. Students with adequate high school records may petition to drop one of these.
The petition, sponsored by the East Harvard Square Neighborhood Association, is aimed at preventing Harvard from building a five-story hotel on the former site of the Gulf station and developer Graham Gund from constructing a six-story shopping mall on Arrow St.
But the petition's author, community activist Terry Crystal, says yesterday that the debate was not simply about the fate of the two projects.
The Crystal petition is seeking to do much the same thing as the Design School's study suggested. In effect, it proposes pulling the eastern end of the Square out of the overlay district that controls development in the area.
As a result, several proposals to rezone parts of the Square have died on the council floor. The most recent example is the Conlan 2 petition, which the council rejected last month, despite approval from the city's Planning Board. That petition would also have downzoned a portion of the...