Word: deconverted
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Rents for student rooms may rise this fall, Arthur D. Trottenberg '48, Manager of Operating Services, predicted yesterday. "If, when Quincy opens, the older Houses deconvert some of their overcrowded suites, the extra space per student will have to be paid for," he explained...
...Administration's "overcrowding" argument greatly overestimates the hardship of the present expansion. Few rooms are too crowded to be comfortable. In fact, some Housemasters found themselves pressuring students into deconverting. Instead of allowing students in the Houses to deconvert but encouraging them to take in students from the outside dormitories, House authorities have done the exact opposite...
...totals. But that will come in time as the College decreases in size. The primary consideration now should be to get as many upper-classmen as possible into the House system. This can only be done by encouraging House members to accept new roommates, instead of urging them to deconvert. Until almost all upperclassmen are in the Houses, deconversion is premature...
Freshmen will be able to deconvert by moving into rooms in Wigglesworth vacated by upperclassmen who move into the Houses and outside dormitories in February. Forty-eight upperclassmen living in the G, H, and I entries of Wigglesworth will be evicted to make room for the Freshman deconversion...
...result of the lower registration, no freshman has to bunk in at the Blockhouse this fall, and the Houses can continue to deconvert. Seventy-eight dormitory beds have been set up in Claverly and Wigglesworth in case too many upperclassmen sign up, but the College doesn't expect to need them...