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About a week after their initial placement in the yard, we wondered, how are the colored chairs doing? We know they are meant to serve as a "new form of gathering space," so are they performing...
...most part, we have to say that even on an idyllic afternoon, with sun and perfect temperatures, the chairs were not really expanding the College's social space. Most students seemed to have somewhere to go on their way through the Yard. Unless you count the ever-present revolving door of tourists as part of the College, this is definitely a small first step. Next stop, 45 Mt. Auburn...
When students entered the Yard last week to shop classes, they surely noticed the sea of pastel-colored chairs dotting the center of Harvard’s campus—and perhaps even stopped for a seat themselves. The 476 chairs and 82 tables, spread throughout the Yard and the Quad, represent the first initiative of a 22-member Committee on Common Spaces, which University President Drew G. Faust tasked with developing new social spaces for the Harvard community. While the reaction of the student body has been mixed, the chairs do bring a new and welcome character to warm...
...they can rest assured: The College has agreed to keep Quad shuttles running through 3:45 AM, meaning that weekday service will not be modified at all. Students returning to the Quad from late nights studying in Lamont, socializing at the river, and engaging in extracurricular activities in the yard area will no longer be left out in the cold. The revised set of cuts, which is limited to weekend mornings—when shuttles are little used and safety concerns less pressing—seems more reasonable. The policy reversal likely results from the vocal response to the original...
...First of all, it’s going to be freezing in no time, and secondly, who stops in the middle of the Yard to sit?” she added...