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Hopes that the new CHUL will quickly dispatch its housing recommendations have faded principally because the administration, has objected to the so-called "Grabar proposal." This plan, named after the outgoing North House Co-master Oleg Grabar '50, would ask Rosovsky to give each House spaces in the Yard proportional to the number of freshmen the House was assigned...
...January 21 CHUL meeting Grabar offered his proposal, which was much like the Quad Committee's, but did not call for permanent freshman assignment to Houses in the fall. Grabar's proposal passed after about an hour's debate, without the Quad Committee proposal being introduced. The Grabar proposal never achieved the status of a final recommendation to Dean Rosovsky, however, because the committee voted to send it back to the executive subcommittee for further discussion...
...evidence indicates that the proposal will not make it through the new CHUL without substantial change, if at all. Dean Whitlock told Grabar last week that this plan could not be implemented next year because it requires too many new administrative arrangements. Grabar admits there are weaknesses with his proposal. He said yesterday that he made his proposal assuming, incorrectly, that CHUL wanted eventually to move to having only four-class Houses. The reconsideration of the Grabar proposal is the first item on today's agenda. The administration will make its objections to the plan's feasibility and rejection...
Bruce Collier, assistant dean of Harvard College and the University's resident housing and computer genius, said he believes that the Grabar plan would have a destructive effect on the Quad Houses. For every freshman a Quad House puts in the Quad, he says, an upperclassman would be forced into the Yard. If the Quad Houses housed students who liked the Quad in the Yard or if they put students disenchanted with the Quad in the Yard, those students are likely to remain disenchanted with and isolated from their Houses. Either way, Collier says, the Quad Houses would lose...
...Oleg Grabar, professor of Fine Arts, and his wife Terry H. Grabar will be the acting co-masters of North House next year...