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...Quad renovations and a higher than expected number of returning students left the housing office scrambling to find space for an extra 80 students when the school year began and College officials spent the year solving the housing crunch and insuring that it would not happen again...
...crunch dissipated with some clever reshuffling and normal student attrition, the College began to devise solutions and the forecast is better for next year. The Quad renovations will be completed by early next fall and Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 has implemented an annex housing plan that will house 101 undergraduates in rent-subsidized apartments in Peabody Terrace, the Botanic Gardens and 8-10 Mt. Auburn...
Currently, College officials are not planning on a repetition of last year's housing crunch Although they cannot be sure how big the undergraduate population will be until August--when students must tell the College they are taking time off--the number of returning students has dropped, Jewett says. And just in case, housing officer Lisa M. Colvin says she is still reserving 12 places in Claverly Hall which she will use for students from houses that turn out to be overcrowded next year...
...safeguard against predators, the cicadas usually first crawl out of the ground after sunset. Their main defense, though, may be sheer numbers: birds, raccoons and skunks can crunch up only so many insects. After climbing the nearest vertical object -- a tree or post, for example -- the insects take their last step toward adulthood. They hook their needle-like claws into the surface, arch their backs to break their skin and then wiggle free. A day later they are ready to fly away. All of this is merely a prelude to courtship, with the male cicadas seeking to attract mates with...
Here were all those weary Americans in Vladivostok, about as far away from home as you could get, and they were coming down to the crunch on a nuclear- arms agreement. They needed a place and some time for secret talk among themselves. There was no place...