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...Down by The River...
...meantime, we are still rather skeptical of any proposal to move Houses across the river. We worry that the impetus for this particular planning assumption is the enhancement of the Allston campus to the detriment of student life—a desire to exploit the liveliness of college students to enhance an otherwise undesirable locale. As the task force on undergraduate life in Allston approaches its final months before the members write their report, we hope they remain cognizant of students’ numerous concerns. Indeed, we doubt any Allston proposal will get much of a hearing from students without...
Fourth, the exact location of Allston Houses matters a lot. Building Houses directly across from existing River Houses (replacing current buildings now part of the Harvard Business School) is likely the only acceptable proposal for an undergraduate community spanning Cambridge and Allston. Building Houses on the existing athletic fields would lead to a troublesome splintering of student life far worse than the present divide...
Finally, the University has acknowledged that any plans for undergraduate housing in Allston will require comprehensive designs to accommodate dramatically increased foot traffic back and forth across the river; the Weeks Memorial Footbridge and the automobile-heavy Larz Anderson Bridge will simply be inadequate. But here, Harvard has the potential to go beyond the bare minimum and demonstrate an expanded commitment to undergraduate life. By making the river the one and only center of campus life, Harvard sets itself up for the opportunity to finally give students something they have long called for: a centrally located student center. If College...
There is a chance that Harvard could revitalize College life and create a significant new architectural landmark in Boston. But the University’s Allston planners have a lot of problems to solve before undergraduates are convinced that moving across the river is actually in their interest. Indeed, many of the above stipulations are likely prohibitively costly, and that is why many students remain deeply skeptical of Allston Houses. Without monumental capital spending on both sides of the river, the dream of Allston could easily turn into an undergraduate’s worst nightmare...