“One of students’ top priorities is having a central, open-to-all student center with common space, eateries, student group space, and useful services,” he said. “Allston presents a great opportunity to deliver that much-needed space.
“The fear that a student center will hurt the house system is irrational,” he added. “We simply don’t have space. Student group and other extra-curricular activities don’t need to be jam-packed within the house basements in order for us to have a vibrant house system.”
The report also recommends that morning classes continue to be taught in their current locations, but suggests that afternoon classes could take place in Allston, as long as they were taught in two-hour long chunks and occurred at 2 p.m. or later in the day.
The Task Force’s final report is slated to be released on April 30, and should be made public shortly after that, according to University spokesperson Lauren Marshall.
“The interim reports will, so far as I know, be made public asap after they are submitted,” Graham, the Task Force co-chair, wrote in an e-mail message.
—Staff writer Lauren A. E. Schuker can be reached at schuker@fas.harvard.edu.