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Toor, who runs two other “isawyou” websites at Rutgers University and the University of Maryland, says that although each campus site has unique characteristics, Harvard’s site stands out for its distinctly emotional charge: “The Harvard one is the most characterized by pent up feelings and deep-seated thoughts and that sort of thing,” says Toor, who attributes the deep-seated emotional expression to the possibility that Harvard students are less willing to make themselves vulnerable to their peers...
Toor also credits this potential embarrassment with part of the success of her site. Her original intention was to create a gag site for a computer science project, but over the first few weeks of its launch, she watched as more and more users began to see it as a space for serious self-expression...
Last spring, the University placed a moratorium on its property purchases in Allston so it could “evaluate options of the construction phasing for the science complex site,” according to University spokeswoman Lauren Marshall...
Lapp specifically pointed to the empty Citgo station site as evidence of Harvard’s efforts...
...We’ve cleaned up the Citgo station,” she said, noting that 13 brokers have been to see the property. “We’ve had a tremendous amount of foot traffic going through that site, trying to come up with ideas, trying to come up with ways to find the right kind of tenant...