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...years, because it’s actually a very short walk. I frequently visit the libraries, the museums, and the film archive. But from the Allston side Harvard can be a forbidding presence. The fields are fenced, the Harvard Business School turns a cold shoulder toward us, and the river houses are locked tight. Back offices and parking lots are Harvard’s face to the Allston neighborhood...
Tunneling Soldiers Field Road, which runs along the River, is crucial if the Allston Houses are to become more than satellites. The plan as it stands now proposes to “sink” a portion of the road (dashed on the map) and create an aesthetically pleasing park-like public space sloping from campus buildings down to the riverbank. This would make living in Allston more aesthetically pleasant—having a highway out one’s window is rarely appealing—but more importantly it would make the Allston Houses feel physically closer to Cambridge...
...most crucial element in uniting the River Houses and the new Houses, however, will be a top-notch shuttle system. Quadlings feel detached from Harvard Square and the River Houses because student shuttles do not run consistently from convenient stops and often cannot match student demand both at peak times and in the middle of the night...
...newest iteration of Harvard’s plans, we argued that the new undergraduate Houses should be located over the Weeks Footbridge next to the Business School because it is physically closer to the existing Houses. The combination of a student center, a pedestrian park stretching to the river, and an efficient shuttle system on the site currently occupied by the athletic fields, however, will do more to unite the Allston Houses than mere physical proximity. Harvard should implement all three proposals and locate the Houses in the athletic facilities area...
Forced to work out inside for the bulk of the offseason due to a frozen Charles River, the No. 4 Harvard co-ed sailing team began its 2007 spring campaign with a strong first-place finish at the Sharpe Trophy Team race in Providence, R.I. this weekend, posting a 17-3 mark in the 20-race round robin regatta en route to the season-opening...