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Most students had suggestions to make Loker more popular. "If they had made it like a dorm common room with couches, people would go there if the common rooms were full," Hsu said...
...wanted to block with friends from my freshman dorm, but I also needed to find a roommate," recalls Kovacevich. Once I found out that Dave was in a similar predicament, I talked with him about it. We're very compatible and are having a great year. We're already decided to room together next year...
...foundation of student life at Harvard-Radcliffe is the residential housing system," beings a Freshmen Deans Office brochure entitled "Living in a Dorm Setting," and we agree. That is precisely why we were disheartened when Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles and Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 recently announced: "In response to the strength of the pools of applicants...in recent freshman classes," Harvard will increase the number of first-years in future entering classes by roughly thirty students...
Housing all first-years in a series of dorms at the center of the campus is an ideal well worth preserving. For first-years in the Yard, there are literally hundreds of potential friends within steps of each dorm's doorway, a nearly endless supply of ideological foes and drinking buddies. The sheer fact of geography, however, will severely limit the breadth of Apley residents' exposure to 3 a.m. political debates and spontaneous snow football games. And neither the high ceilings nor the claw-footed bathtubs of Apley Court will change this fact...
Attempting to put a positive spin on the decision, Associate Dean of Freshmen in Residence Lorraine Sterritt argued, "These students will be as close if not closer [to the Yard] than those living in the Union dorms." But past expansion cannot justify another round of housing sprawl, let alone one that will land a dorm between the Hasty Pudding Club and the Delhi Darbar restaurant. And even if Hurlbut, Pennypacker and Greenough no longer have the Union, at least they have each other...