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Citing safety concerns, Lewis issued a memo last month prohibiting any use of the roughly 1,700 fireplaces in the Houses, except those in the suites of House masters and senior tutors. Fireplaces in Yard dorms have been covered up since the early 1990s, according to Zachary M. Gingo, manager of administrative operations for Harvard Yard...
...Gingo said he was unsure whether the ban would be enforced by physically blocking chimneys and fireplaces or simply by threat of disciplinary action. Lewis declined to comment...
Zachary M. Gingo, a Harvard Yard Operations manager, says the ban is “based on complaints from faculty, staff, and people who get hit on the head while walking through the Yard.” Students engaging in such wayward amusement will be asked to leave the Yard. “If we see folks playing in the Yard, we send Crimson security guards to ask them to move on. But it’s not a punishable offense,” Gingo says...
...Students are just buried in papers and don’t feel the cold until there’s a temperature drop,” Gingo said...
...Gingo noted that Harvard heats its dorms to temperatures “much higher” than the indoor temperature minimums established by the city of Cambridge and that student complaints often come from rooms with windows that are not completely closed...