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Thirty-three Harvard graduate students living in Conant Hall don't think so. Since last November they have been sponsoring six-year-old Wakidi Frisnoumoto through Foster Parents Plan, a Rhode Island-based agency...
Wakidi's family according to literature sent by the agency and tacked on the dorm's bulletin board earns about $12.80 a month by growing and selling spinach and other produce; the family's monthly expenses come to $14.41. Each parent in the Conant Hall group contributes $7 a year towards the difference...
Participants agree fostering Wakidi has helped create a family feeling in Conant. Last year Lhota bought cards saying "Congratulations--it's a boy!" and sent them to each foster parent. Developing community spirit tends to be harder in graduate dorms than in undergraduate because people spend less time in their rooms, he said...
...Conant Hall group is not unique Gerry Kass, a representative of Foster Parents Plan, said. Many college-age groups -- particularly fraternities and sororities -- sponsor children, often until the child turns eighteen...
...test the benefits of new hoods, Abernathy and company have suggested installing them in only one floor of Conant Hall--one of the Chem Lab buildings--before making any firm decisions. They had the same idea in mind when they suggested last summer's Thayer Hall regulations, Abernathy says. Aside from insulating Thayer's roof, replacing its incandescent lighting with fluorescent lights, and installing smaller showerheads, the renovation teams equipped each room with thermostatic controls, Leahy says. Abernathy says he believes the new heating procedure will eliminate excessively hot or cold rooms; if it proves cost- and energy-efficient...