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Many irate students during the past week have wandered into Collier's office in the basement of University Hall convinced that their Houses are drastically more over-crowded than any other. Collier said those students usually leave his office persuaded that crowding is just as bad, if not worse, in the other Houses...
...several of his visitors have left with the impression that Collier is snowing them under with statistics, formulas, pain indices, ideal capacities, crowding quotients and everything else he uses to prove that crowding is equally distributed among all the Houses...
Last week the Mather Memo, the House newspaper, charged that Collier's method of determining the "pain factor" (the relative pain caused by crowding in each House) as the amount of floor space per capita illustrates that he is "totally divorced from the reality of the housing situation." The Memo editors were not swayed by Collier's explanations, calling them "the reasoning of a functional moron...
...Collier responded to the Memo's claim that Mather House is "severely overcrowded" by saying Wednesday that Mather is actually "relatively less crowded" than any other House. Collier supports this statement by comparing the percentage of residents who exceed "ideal capacity" (the number of single bedrooms) in each House. For Mather this percentage is 14.6, a lower figure than that of any other House...
Mather House has fewer living rooms and more bedrooms than the other River Houses. Because Collier includes bedrooms in the ideal capacity figure, other Houses appear to be more crowded because their living room space is not taken into account...