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Thomas A. Dingman '67, who is associate dean of housing as well as Allston Burr senior tutor of Dudley House, argues that partition subsidies would inevitably get passed on to the Harvard population in the from of higher housing costs and that this would be unfair to students in general...
...would contend the reserve; that it is unfair to make certain students who have the bad luck to wind up in common rooms bear the entire cost of partitioning. In fact, a small increase in our housing bill might be the just and equitable thing to do. Dean Dingman also suggests that if Harvard started to remedy this particular type of housing discrepancy it would be deluged by student complaints demanding compensation for other types of inequalities. However, it is better for Harvard to have to pick and choose which students to compensate rather than to compensate...
What Dean Dingman and I do agree upon, though, is that Harvard could become more helpful, if not more financially accountable, to students placed in bad housing situations...
...Dean Dingman also mentions that his office maintains overflow housing in Apley Court to ease overcrowding. Finally, he says that the superintendent of each House should be a "resource" to students in terms of where to find construction materials and how to build their partitions...
Wood added that in the remote possibility that a housing crunch occurred, a decision on a remedy would not be made at the housing office, but by Associate Dean of the College Thomas A. Dingman...