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...difficult to decipher which segments of the University community the Fox plan, as approved, benefits. Filling Canaday Hall entries has long been an unpleasant responsibility for masters of over-crowded River Houses. The Vorenbergs, masters of Dunster House, have had but one volunteer roommate group to fill their 20-person Canaday entry in two years. And understandably so: Canaday has become an artificial mini-Quad; many Canaday upperclassmen must walk as far for dinner at their assigned Houses as Quad people must walk to some classes. Only six River House masters face the no-win task of assigning students...
...ultimately emerged, the goals of the revised Fox plan are at best overly optimistic and at worst unresponsive to the Quad's needs. Despite what the plan does for Canaday upperclassmen, Fox has said many times that the primary goal of the plan was to improve the Quad's popularity by equalizing its living quality with that of the River Houses. Unfortunately, the plan equalizes the two in the area of one of the Quad's lone advantages-four-class housing-and does little to bring Quad physical standards in line with the rest of Harvard...
...focus of that debate, as viewed by students and administrators alike, was on the Quad. Students were thus unpleasantly surprised last week when Rosovsky's final solution to the housing problem severely shortchanged the Quad and its residents and instead concerned itself largely with the peripheral problem of Canaday Hall and the question of four-class housing at the Quad. Rosovsky's plan took almost no notice of long-term measures to equalize the quality of all University housing. Rosovsky and Fox dismissed one such proposal, that of remodeling the Yard dorms into Houses and establishing four-year Houses throughout...
...only other issue on which Rosovsky did seriously consider students' opinions concerned the abolition of four-class housing at the Quad. Partly because it removes upperclassmen from Canaday, CHUL came out strongly in favor of this aspect of the Fox plan last January...
This attempt to remedy the Canaday problem has its advantages. Very few of the 190 upperclassmen living in what has become a dumping ground for overcrowded River Houses feel they are part of House social life, a social life based as much on proximity and convenience as it is on planned activities. River House masters have learned they must find "volunteers" for their Canaday entries in much the same way the Army finds "volunteers" for special missions...