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Last week, Harvard finally gave up trying to build a tunnel under Cambridge Street as part of the new Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS). This event marked the end of a rancorous battle between the University, local activists and the City of Cambridge. But the elimination of the tunnel from Harvard’s construction plans means only one thing: nobody...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: The Price of Stubbornness | 2/4/2003 | See Source »

...CGIS plans originally called for one five-story building, but when local residents objected to the size, Harvard planners split the center into two smaller buildings positioned on opposite sides of Cambridge Street. A connecting tunnel would have been beneficial for students and faculty using the facilities, as well as for neighbors averse to the noise and bustle generated by academic centers...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: The Price of Stubbornness | 2/4/2003 | See Source »

...Cambridge where Harvard fought a year, and lost, its struggle for permission to dig a tunnel under a single city street, a subway line, monorail, or moving sidewalk might not be an easy sell...

Author: By Alex L. Pasternack and Lauren A.E. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Harvard Fords the River | 2/3/2003 | See Source »

...into a bad situation and we tried to come up with a way to improve it with the negotiations,” said John R. Pitkin, the neighborhood activist who led the charge against the tunnel. “It didn’t work...

Author: By Alexandra N. Atiya and Jessica R. Rubin-wills, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Tunnel Plans Axed After Year of Negotiation | 1/31/2003 | See Source »

Former Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, who had made the tunnel one of his pet projects, said the neighborhood residents would lose out in the end because they would not receive the benefits Harvard had been willing to offer them in return...

Author: By Alexandra N. Atiya and Jessica R. Rubin-wills, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Tunnel Plans Axed After Year of Negotiation | 1/31/2003 | See Source »

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