Word: sites
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHEN Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence endorsed a controversial plan to build a hotel on the former site of the Gulf Station in Harvard Square, he signaled victory for Harvard's bureaucratic interests at the expense of its academic mission...
Harvard Real Estate (HRE), the company which manages the University's non-academic property holdings, has pushed a plan to turn the Gulf site, one of the last tracts of undeveloped property in the vicinity of Harvard Square, into a hotel to house guests of the University. When Spence endorsed the plan--with the understanding that the site will eventually be sold to the Faculty of Arts and Science (FAS)--HRE cleared a crucial hurdle...
SINCE its inception, the plan has encountered bitter opposition from almost everyone with an interest in the fate of the Gulf site. The University has run rough-shod over the wishes of them...
DESPITE Spence's insistence that the hotel plan is the most efficient use of the land (revenue from the hotel will presumably pay for converting the site into office space some time early in the next century), one has to wonder why Spence so willfully opposed the wishes of the faculty he heads...
...being so concerned with propriety. When there was opportunity to make the rhetoric of equal opportunity a reality, which was the core issue regarding the continued presence or absence of the Commonwealth Day School, a school which serves a significant sector of minority students, at its 113 Brattle Street site, where was Councillor Duehay as a drum major for justice within his own neighborhood? He joined with his neighbors in a chorus of "Just Say No." Schooldays have been brought to a close for the Commonwealth Day School at the Brattle Street site. Such action by Councillor Duehay...