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...Harvard College Women’s Center. “Well, I didn’t say anyone couldn’t bring anything.” Hundreds of other articles of clothing were exchanged at the “Naked Ladies Brunch,” a clothing swap and drive held at the Women’s Center this Saturday. The swap was organized to bring women on campus together, as well as benefit a women’s shelter in Boston, according to event organizer and Women’s Center intern Natasha S. Alford...
...quick internet search leads her to Iris, whose self-pity has induced contemplations of suicide, and with nothing in common but their mutual state of rejection and a love of playing air guitar to Top 40 hits, the two women decide to swap houses for the holidays...
Residents of the Charlesview Apartments in Allston gathered outside their homes yesterday evening to protest last week’s vote by the Charlesview Board of Directors to enter into a land-swap agreement with Harvard.The group of about 30 residents, organized by the Charlesview Tenants’ Association and accompanied by around 10 Harvard students, announced their opposition to the swap, which would give Harvard the five-acre plot on which Charlesview currently stands. In return, Harvard would build a new affordable housing complex on a 6.5-acre site further southwest in Allston.Protestors criticized the Board for what they...
...Harvard St. and Western Ave. In return, Harvard will rebuild the apartments on a plot of land it owns further west along Western Ave., at the current site of the Brighton Mills Shopping Center. While development could progress on Harvard’s existing Allston holdings without this land swap, we believe that any future campus across the river with a five-acre lacuna at its heart would ultimately be second-best. This triangular plot is crucial to Harvard’s vision of reinvigorating the intersection known as “Barry’s Corner...
Both Harvard and Charlesview’s board of directors—who are representatives of the three churches and one synagogue that own the apartment complex—have been criticized for negotiating directly with each other and not with Charlesview residents in finalizing the land swap. But this was a necessity of the negotiations process: to buy a piece of land, you must work with the land’s owners. Nevertheless, there is ample scope for tenant input in many other aspects of the final deal. In particular, the tenants’ often-expressed concern that...