Word: siting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard has worked hard to come up with a suitable split-site proposal, but that proposal cannot match the opportunities that placing the memorial at Columbia Point present...
There is some question in our minds about breaking trust with the people who gave money for a memorial in Cambridge. But because a memorial as such, with a museum, would not be built in Harvard Square, under the split-site proposal, that concern does not override our support for the UMass site...
...apparent that if the Columbia Point site is chosen on Monday, construction could begin immediately. There is a chance that construction could be stalled at Charlestown with its reams of red tape and complicated federal funding proposals. And if the split-site proposal is not chosen, there seems to be a greater likelihood that plans for Charlestown and Cambridge would eventually gain their funds, even without the library, while the Columbia Point area might have less of a chance for development...
...Crimson called the announcement that the Kennedy Library Corporation would probably build the JFK arhcives and museum at UMass "a colossal failure" for the Bok administration. The Crimson criticized the administration for failing to work hard enough to develop an acceptable split-site proposition and for not rallying community support for this valuable and prestigious center...
Although the UMass proposal would allow the corporation to begin construction on the museum and library sooner than the Harvard-backed plan, the corporation must look at the more overriding long-term benefits of the split-site. If the corporation seriously meant that it would accept a suitable slip-site proposal as it said last May--then it should choose the Harvard-backed plan and build the archives in Harvard Square and the museum in Charlestown...