Word: dorms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week later, the Faculty Council, after examining new plans calling for a reduction in the size of the dorm, reversed its disapproval. The new plans set the capacity of the dorm at 205 students, 33 less than originally planned...
...released the dorm plans, so no one has more than a sketchy idea of what it will look like. It will be made up of several sections connecting to form a rectangle which will be partially open in the corner of the dorm nearest Robinson Hall. A second part of the dorm will lie on the Robinson Hall side of the larger structure. The dorm will be four stories high in most places, although a few sections will rise to five stories. However, even the highest sections will be lower than Thayer Hall. The dorm will almost surely look very...
...hour to work shifts from 12 midnight to 8 a.m., are instructed to call the police on their radios if they spot any suspicious persons or anything that seems out of the ordinary. In May a member of the student security patrol saw someone carrying things from a dorm and contacted police. As a result a local youth was arrested and several hundred dollars' worth of stereo equipment was recovered...
...Yard and Mather House entries has lowered crime in these areas. "We've only had one serious rip-off in Mather since we locked the entries, and that was the day before we installed locks on the elevators," von Stade said. He added that locking up of the Yard dorms and five of the eight gates to the Yard at night has substantially decreased the traffic from "off of the streets." Several times before the doors were locked non-student heroin users were discovered using Yard dorm bathrooms as "shooting galleries...
...plans for the new freshman dorm, the Pusey Library and other planned construction for Harvard's future have been at least partially dictated by concern for increased security within the University. There is little doubt that all of the future planning for additions or renovations to the Harvard campus will be done with a heavy emphasis on security considerations...