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...curricula, but also to maintain state-of-the-art facilities. But campus development for an institution like Harvard is a complicated process that involves years of planning—incorporating modern architecture and environmentally conscious practices with an aesthetic commitment to red brick neo-Georgian architecture. Development on this scale also includes accommodating all the parties involved, from students and academic departments to city governments and the residents of affected neighborhoods...
...naive”. it may at first seem odd that a group of students should protest Harvard’s ties to South Africa by means of a fast. But the week-long hunger strike is neither idealistic not overly impractical. The fasters have already dramatized on an international scale the indifference of the Harvard Corporation to repeated demands by faculty and students for divestment from companies operating in South Africa. Corporation members Hugh Calkins ‘49 statement that Harvard’s investment decisions are divorced from moral considerations: President Bok’s conflicting remark that...
...should have ongoing renovations all the time on a small scale,” Fox said, instead of massive projects every 25 years. Because many universities have excessive confidence in the longevity of their buildings, Fox maintained that such consistent structural construction is often lacking...
...Though Fox favored small ongoing maintenance and updates at the time, the dilapidated conditions of the 50-year-old Houses necessitated the large scale renovation of the 1980s, he said recently...
Although last week's quake near the small town of Selfloss registered 6.1 on the Richter scale, and was followed by over 100 small aftershocks that rattled windows and nerves late into the night and the following day, there were no serious injuries or major structural damages. Still, "Everybody was visibly shaken," says the town's police chief, Olafur Helgi Kjartansson. "We didn't have any clue that it was coming...