Word: curriered
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...scoop on the new shuttles: Overcrowding in the shuttles, especially from Currier to the Science Center, has raised concerns for safety. Carl Tempesta is in charge of a vehicle replacement program in which one old red shuttle is replaced by a new white and all-diesel shuttle each year. The smaller of the new shuttles has perimeter seating in order to allow for more capacity...
...shuttle. With its colorful roster of professional chaeuffeurs, the shuttle ride offers free entertainment along with a ride. The Crazy Shuttle Driver, for example, has achieved a near cult-hero status among Quadlings, and his outrageous hijinx inevitably have commuters in stitches before their short ride ends. According to Currier resident Katherine F. Hart '01,"everybody knows about the Crazy Shuttle Driver...he yells a lot, pushes people...he just talks to everybody...
Quad parties have a certain cachet. Between Cabot's infamous entryway-wide toga ruckuses and Currier 10-man raves, word always reaches the Charles when something's hot on the other end of the shuttle route. The truth of the matter is, however, that Quad administrators take rules and regulations seriously, and the huge House parties of Cabot and Currier (which in the past have even had their own printed T-shirts) can require even huger amounts of preparation...
Brian Friedman '00 laments that "it's easier to adopt a small child than to have a party here [in the Currier 10-man suite]. There are all these forms we have to fill out, and the tutors are always around...they always shut it down right at 1 a.m." According to senior Mike Bush '99, however, careful preparation and planning are worthwhile because they result in respectful treatment from administrators. "The administrators are pretty cool about it," he says, "if you're good about being organized and follow all the rules." Bush stresses that the House spirit...
Winthrop Resident Tutor James L. Doak '94 remembers a time when the famous "party suites" of Currier, Cabot and Pforzheimer "had a leg up" in the party scene." The top floors of PfoHo [were] always able to have great parties...because they were a few more steps away from the security guard." In the Quad of yore, "House administrators supported these rooms as social leaders," according to Doak, implying that administrators may have been somewhat more lenient with regards to these rooms' parties...