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Tucker's dream for Arts on the Point was to establish the 200 harborside acres of the UMass campus on Columbia Point, in Dorchester, as the city's first collection of large-scale outdoor sculpture. The campus's bland "prison-like" facades and vast open spaces screamed potential to Tucker. He desired to raise Boston's profile in the world of contemporary art while renewing public appreciation for the challenges and beauties of modern sculpture. Admittedly an idealist, Tucker nevertheless realizes the difficulties of his pursuit: "When works of art are challenging and in a public space, it raises people...
...overriding concern was that it was taking away from the open space," claims Essaibi, arguing that the sculpture's unwieldy height would block the bayside view. Neighborhood groups, local high schools and businesses contributed to the overwhelming opposition, with additional concerns about kids climbing on or graffitiing the piece. More importantly, local community groups were outraged at having been snubbed and excluded from the decision-making process concerning the publicly visible land. Essaibi claims that UMass, when it was founded in the late '60s, signed a memo agreeing to discuss any exterior aesthetic changes of the public grounds with...
Essaibi attributes the lack of contention over these pieces to their inconspicuous placement; they did not require public deliberation. The community group is not picking on the artwork itself, but on the infringement of public space-the association is likewise upset about the university's building of a campus center and acquisition of a pump house. Gould emphasizes the artistic strength of the Columbia neighborhood, calling it a "hip community" replete with artists and art-appreciation projects of its own. "I would 100 percent support a piece of artwork, whether I liked it or not, if it was preceded...
Weiner is one of the elite minority of students who keep their own cars at Harvard. They suffer the everyday hassles of car ownership: expensive parking permits and minimal curbside space, unpredictable traffic and fearless pedestrians, even too-close encounters with wild animals...
With so many wonderful things happening on this campus of ours, doesn't it seem silly that The Crimson would devote so much valuable space and attention to a group that many undergrads consider--either accurately or otherwise--as a bunch of resume-building windbags...