Word: hershbach
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Dates: during 1982-1982
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...While Hershbach declines to detail how any proposed amendments might adjust the formula and alleviate crowding in certain Houses--particularly at the Quad, where it is harder to "crowd" the many single bedrooms--he says the net result would not differ greatly from the current situation. But for those Houses that are crowded, he says. "We think it can be improved in a number of respects...
...River in the housing lottery in which a Quad assignment is usually a booby prize. "There are a lot of little things that add up" to contribute to the maligned reputation of the Quad as a desolate, far-off place, according to Currier House Master Dudley R. Hershbach. And these are what cause occasionally ferocious actions like that which prompted the immediate revision of Commencement programs last June...
...slap in the face for Quad residents, their wishes and concerns disregarded. But there seems to be a consensus that the plan has worked out well. "Even though there was great hue and cry at times, the judgement is that it was definitely a good thing to do," says Hershbach. Unification of freshmen in the Yard and nearby Union dorms seems to offer at least one common Harvard experience for undergraduates, officials agree. Hanna Hastings recalls that freshmen assigned to the Quad and then reassigned to a Quad House as upperclassmen because of bad luck in the lottery "really felt...
...apparent answer, which Wacker says will come via a report by the end of the term, is a resounding "yes." Committee members--the Quad masters plus Mather House Masters David and Patricia Herlihy and Eliot House Master Alan E. Heimert '49--hedge somewhat in discussing specifics. Says Hershbach: "I don't want to steal all the thunder." Nevertheless, the masters are making clear they see the need for further substantive improvements in Quad living. These will probably include a revision of House assignment formulas which severely affect the Quad's crowding situation (see accompanying story), and a call for major...
...space in Hilles Library as a result of the first Comprehensive plan, and other offices recently moved to the Quad; masters are calling for further moves along this line. Hastings's pet project is the creation of a bike path to the Quad; "It would make a difference." And Hershbach wouldn't mind a swimming pool, "but I don't know if we're going to propose...