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Harvard Real Estate's (HRE) announcement of its annual rent increases on 1700 apartments for graduate students and other University affiliates prompted angry responses yesterday from supporters of strict rent control laws...
...every other criterion than that of greed, Harvard Real Estate's hotel plans are painfully foolish. At a time when the Harvard-Radcliffe population desperately needs space and security, HRE is turning University land over to transient strangers. Everyone knows that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences does not have enough space for it teachers to write or teach adequately. There is almost no place where faculty below the associate level can sit in quiet and privacy and think--a process necessary for the writing with which we earn tenure, another fact the University has forgotten. Most of us have...
...Harvard Real Estate may not care how many freshmen are mugged or how many upperclassmen are run over en route from the River Houses. But I would think someone there would notice that, with all the concessions HRE promises to meet such worries, the hotel will hardly be an attractive, money-earning one. Harvard promises a "moderately priced" hotel to avoid further yuppification, a small one to dodge traffic and transiency problems, one with no public services in order to keep crowds away, and one with a Graham Gund-supplied designer label to keep architecture buffs quiet. First...
...issue is not the wrongness of Harvard Real Estate's plans for the site, because that is self-evident. The Undergraduate Council and the Harvard faculty, meeting as a body, have demonstrated the stupidity of the plans and of HRE's decision-making processes. The real issue is the incompatibility of Harvard Real Estate's aims in this case with those of the University as a humanistic enterprise. The University's scholars need spaces in which to think; Harvard Real Estate builds rooms for vacationing tourists. The frail symbiotic links between Cambridge and Harvard need to be nurtured through economic...
Students and faculty must demand that Harvard Real Estate be called to account for its offenses against education, community and environment HRE's management and public relations are doing far more damage to the University than its bungling plans will ever earn back in revenue. If Derek Bok is sincere in his declarations about Harvard's humanistic mission, he will stop HRE from selling off the resources of learning to make a few more lousy bucks. Lecturer, History...