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...rationally deciding whether or not they want to live in a particular House until they actually live there, and that therefore, they should not be given the option of arranging a switch with someone assigned to another House, even though that switch would leave both parties at least slightly happier than they are at present. The result is a situation where no attempt is made to minimize discontent and every attempt is made to thwart the student's freedom...
Edward Powers says he is "delighted" with the decision. Daniel Steiner couldn't be happier. And even Steve Hall calls it "a victory for me, in a sense...
Griffiths added he will seek a clarification from CHUL on Wednesday. "Although I still oppose transfers to fill vacant space, I would favor one-to-one transfers since such switches make people happier without changing the composition of the House," he said...
...these dire effects are necessary in the scheme of things in Cambridge has yet to be seen. What convinces CTOC spokesman William Cunningham that home-rule rent control is no good is the simple fact that landlords and realtors' organizations support it. Cunningham claims landlords "couldn't have been happier," when Boston's locally administered rent law turned into a vacancy decontrol plan because it meant that rent control may well be crippled everywhere it is locally run. Rather than court the legislature any further, CTOC plans to turn its efforts to organizing tenants for militant action, including possible rent...
...Yard and Union dorms rated each of collegiate years on a scale "from Nirvana(1) to Worse than Death (10)," making possible a mind-boggling number of statistical analyses. The average student has a middling freshman year, worse if spent in Claverly or the Union dorms, and three successively happier years. More surprisingly, each year at the Quad rates higher than the corresponding year at the Yard, Union dorms, or River Houses: freshman year wins 4.52 to 4.75 and senior year 3.06 to 3.48. Harvard Independent...