Harvard Law School (HLS) faculty may have voted two years ago to object to moving to Allston—but that does not mean it will not happen under new University President Lawrence H. Summers.

Nothing can be ruled out when it comes to physical planning, Summers says.

And the law school’s not the only one getting the message—Summers’ has stressed this theme in his early meetings with representatives of Harvard’s various schools.

“I don’t think any options have been taken off the table,” Summers says of the possibilities in Allston during an interview this week.

As a result, Summers says he is asking individual schools not to limit the University’s future Allston options while planning for new building on Harvard’s existing campus.

“What I have made clear to each of the schools is that this is so salient and large an opportunity, that while we have not made any decision about how [the land] will be used, all major planning decisions from this point forward will have to contemplate how they will work out under different scenarios for Allston,” Summers says.

Administration sources say “adaptability” is one of the central administration’s chief concerns. They say Summers and other central planners want to make sure that buildings currently in planning stages could be adapted and used by another faculty if a school, or parts of a school, were to move to Allston.

The central administration has long been responsible for assuring that individual faculties’ building plans fit with the overall goals of the University.