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...plan sites the campus just south of Western Ave. behind the riverfront Genzyme building as part of a “human life sciences” campus...
...have difficulty understanding the Staff’s position with respect to the possibility of new Allston undergraduate Houses (Editorial, “Allston Plans Gone Awry,” Sept. 23). The riverfront sites that have been discussed for undergraduates will be among the most attractive anywhere on campus, as close to the Yard as the existing Quad Houses, and considerably closer to the main cluster of existing undergraduate housing. They will also be at the epicenter of Harvard’s future expanded campus (whereas the existing Quad Houses will be increasingly peripheral), thereby providing superb access...
...Staff does raise an important point about the need for dramatic improvements in the safety and amenity of pedestrian movement across the river (including, very likely, a new pedestrian bridge), and the Staff might have added the need for direct pedestrian access from any new undergraduate houses to the riverfront as well. These are indeed critical planning and design issues, but to dismiss out of hand the potential benefits of an undergraduate presence in Allston—both to the particular students who may live there and the Harvard more generally of future generations—seems extraordinarily premature...
...past can’t be undone, but if you let it continue and you let Harvard do to the last piece of the riverfront what they’ve done to the rest of it, there really is no excuse,” said Jessie Wenning...
...care about the riverfront, and Harvard just wants to take it over and make it a little stream that goes through campus,” he says. “That is what makes the battle so different from any other one. It makes it more of a citywide issue...