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...Harvard and Riverside have been battling over the University’s right to build, the debate has often centered on Harvard’s notorious history of development in Riverside—a history that has included buying out small houses to build large, unpopular buildings like Mather Tower and Peabody Terrace...
This expansion included the construction of Peabody Terrace and Mather Tower in the 1960s—two buildings that are praised by architects but hated by neighbors who say the tall structures cast shadows across their homes and block their views of the river...
It’s true that the world looks to Harvard professors for their academic insight, not their hot threads. But a chosen few academics have turned the ivory tower into their own personal runway. The following professors are some of those who have escaped the bad suits and paisley prints of academia’s hideous closet. FM crowns them sartorial superstars...
...Nobel Laureates, I doubt even Kavulla himself would say that William R. Hewlett MIT SM ’36 (of Hewlett Packard Co.), Benjamin Netanyahu, MIT Class of 1975 (former Israeli Prime Minister), I.M. Pei, MIT Class of 1940 (architect of Boston’s John Hancock Tower among other things), and Tom and Ray Magliozzi, of MIT Classes 1958 and 1972 respectively, (better known as Click and Clack of NPR’s “Car Talk”) have kept their “blinders” focused on academics all their lives...
...Union of Harvard (CLUH) lobbied the administration to allow House Masters discretion to allow co-ed rooming groups. CLUH pointed out that rooming groups that were co-ed in everything but name already were permitted, including the Senior House suite in Adams House and suites in the Mather House tower...