Word: foxes
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Delving into University Hall's motivation for this particular bag of changes is no easy task. While this plan is clearly not University Hall's final solution to the housing problem, Fox billed his plan as "comprehensive" and said this week he was "reasonably optimistic that the Quad will be competitive in five years." For the next year or so, however, this prediction seems based on shaky grounds. Present Quad residents made clear their opposition to the plan last January when they collected about 900 signatures on a petition protesting the plan...
...obvious to college administrators, four-year housing was hardly a sufficient selling point for increasing the Quad's popularity. But oddly, in witnessing this, University Hall officials seem to have taken the opposite tack entirely, and assumed it to be a drawback. In his plan, Fox identified the Quad's "difference" of class structure as one of the reasons for its lack of popularity. Fox's plan remedies the difference, but this alone seems unlikely to raise the esteem of the Quad Houses among freshmen--Fox's original goal; it may even reduce...
...shadow of the $30 million fundraising drive under way for the new Soldier's Field athletic complex. It is unclear whether the Observatory Hill athletic complex, which would sit mere yards away from the Quad Houses, will ever be built, No formal fundraising efforts for the complex have begun. Fox said he thought "the bulk of our energies have to be devoted toward the Quad for these years," but he added that "at this time the [Observatory Hill] athletic complex is not a realistic possibility, for lack of money...
Then the mystery remains: why the Fox plan? One possible answer lies in the realities of interest group politics around the University. Side-taking on the plan roughly split along geographical lines. Student opposition to the plan was based at the Quad. Although River House upperclassmen had no opportunity to present their opinions on the plan, they were far less vocal than Quad residents and the majority of River House CHUL representatives apparently voted to abolish four-class Houses when CHUL voted by secret ballot on the issue. The only House masters to publicly oppose the Fox plan were...
...difficult to decipher which segments of the University community the Fox plan, as approved, benefits. Filling Canaday Hall entries has long been an unpleasant responsibility for masters of over-crowded River Houses. The Vorenbergs, masters of Dunster House, have had but one volunteer roommate group to fill their 20-person Canaday entry in two years. And understandably so: Canaday has become an artificial mini-Quad; many Canaday upperclassmen must walk as far for dinner at their assigned Houses as Quad people must walk to some classes. Only six River House masters face the no-win task of assigning students...