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According to Associate Dean of the College Thomas A. Dingman ’67, there have been several different plans for the MAC over the past few years...
...freshmen to the Yard and pushing the Quad toward a much more visible form of segregation. The Quad’s unpopularity made it ideal for self-imposed isolation. “[The Quad] became students of color,” Associate Dean of the College Thomas A. Dingman ’67 says. “Students could put four unordered choices, and the sense was that if they wanted to live together somewhere, they could all put the Quad and end up there.” Sure enough, by 1996, the percentage of black students in the Quad...
...Dean of the College at the time, L. Fred Jewett ’57, instituted the change in housing assignments from a system where blocking groups could rank their top four House choices to a completely randomized selection process. According to Dingman, randomization solved the chronic problem of self-segregation at the Quad. “It used to be about have and have-nots,” he says. “Now I think the Quad Houses are truly representative of the student body as a whole...
...raucousness of Saturday night soirees in the Quad this year has caused tensions with locals in the Quad’s largely residential neighborhood. Dingman has planned a meeting between the House Masters and the neighbors in the upcoming weeks. “There have been some complaints, filtered through the Dean’s office,” says Cabot House Master Jay M. Harris. “I spoke to a resident on the street today, and it has been better, as midterms and projects come and the weather gets colder. It seems as though...
...insular community. “To us, it’s weird that people live at the river. Being here is normal,” says Lassiter. “With some teams going up there and being charismatic, people want to transfer to the Quad,” Dingman says. “It happens more than you think...