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While varsity athletes were enjoying Briggs and the other new facilities at the Soldiers Field complex, structural problems forced the temporary closure of a recently built facility near the Radcliffe Quad. Radcliffe President Horner closed the doors of the Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center (Q-RAC) before students arrived last fall because water leakage was causing buckling floors in squash courts and bubbles on the epoxy-coated floor of an exercise area. Horner commissioned an extensive study of the problems plaguing the $2.4 million facility which was built in 1978, and kept the Q-RAC closed through the fall. Weather problems...
...mean time, the 1050 residents of Quad Houses were left without an athletic center nearby, until December 1, when Horner agreed to open the large gym, and established weight rooms in the houses. Questions of legal liability for the water-caused damage have yet to be solved, and repairs will continue into the summer. "We're still holding our breath about the weather," Horner says, "but things should be ready by the fall. I think there's obvious disappointment, but there should be some sense of relief that the building will be forthcoming in a matter of months...
...right to exist. The issue had been raised in 1979, when the now-defunct Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) voted to revoke RUS's right to its financial lifeblood, the $5 term bill fee charged to every woman undergraduate at that time. Radcliffe President Matina Horner rejected the CHUL vote, forcing a confrontation...
...atmosphere of unwarranted complacency, conventional wisdom remained unchallenged. Given her significant contributions to women's studies, it is unfortunate that this was the occasion chosen to honor Matina S. Horner's tenth anniversary as President of Radcliffe College. Nadla Malley Cynthia Sonborn Cathryn Thorup PhD. Program in Government Harvard University
...purpose "is to look past 'developing' and 'developed' nations and realize that we are all interdependent rather than dependent," Horner said...