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President Horner agreed last month to a December reopening date for the three-year old facility's undamaged main reactional room which includes basketball courts and a Universal Gym exercise machine. Horner said she would wait to open Q-RAC until preliminary work got underway to stop leaks in other parts of the building...
...Quad, however, there was plenty of talk about how Horner had mismanaged the situation and how student interests were being ignored. All Quad residents knew was that the gym was closed and that the Quad had lost what many of them felt was one of its few saving graces. Moreover, Quad masters were upset because they say no one from Radcliffe cared enough to tell them that the gym was closed. The first word they got was in June...
Tempers flared, but Horner remained firm While she admits that she might have opened undamaged parts of the gym last month if she knew the report would have been delayed, she maintains that she fulfilled her contractual obligations in the matter, which indeed she did All she was required to do was tell the head of the Q-RAC Management Committee. Assistant Dean of the College Thomas A Dingman '67 It was up to him to inform the masters of any problems. And Horner did meet with student representatives of the Quad Houses--upon their request--to give them...
Perhaps they are right Horner might have done more than she did to demonstrate her concern. She could have offered to help students secure compensation for the loss of the gym which they have been attempting to do through the Harvard committee over the past few weeks by relocating some of the QRAC's weight equipment and getting hold of funds accumulated through the building's non-operation But realistically. Horner feels, it was not her responsibility to deal with any communications gaps that may have arisen when Dingman or others at the Harvard end of things failed to advertise...
...appears that the Q-RAC and any student interests that may have been trampled are victims more of a complex administrative jumble than anyone's malicious actions or lack thereof. As Horner says, it is ridiculous for anyone to believe that it is in Radcliffe's interest to keep the gym closed What would be constructive is for Horner and Harvard to take a hard look at their respective roles in Radcliffe-owned buildings, so that students who live in and use them never again fall through cracks that might develop in their structures...