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...difference this year has been conspicuous. Attendance at Master’s Open Houses has soared, and for Deb’s birthday, scores of Quincy students crowded the Junior Common Room (JCR) to surprise her. In sharp and telling contrast, when Kirshner returned for a visit in May, only a handful of students went to see him. Perhaps this is because, as master, Kirshner rarely deigned to mix among the common folk in the dining hall, much less take the time to learn our names and activities...
...only do Kirshner and Loader distance themselves from the Quincy House community, but they also have a terrible misconception of who exactly this community includes. The dining hall staff and other House employees are an integral part of the House community, and are considered friends by many Quincy students. Yet Quincy dining hall workers explained that Kirshner avoided talking to them directly and made it clear they were not welcome to use House spaces and equipment...
...problem is not merely that Kirshner and Loader have a different style of leadership than the Gehrkes. It is not about whether a book party is a better House event than a pumpkin carving. Rather, it is that, in all their years at Quincy, Kirshner and Loader never invested as much in the students and in Quincy House community as the Gehrkes did in just nine months...
Leaders of Quincy’s senior class wrote a letter to Kirshner last month explaining the positive changes the Gehrkes brought to Quincy and asking that they be continued. Over half of Quincy’s senior class signed it. Kirshner came to Quincy to discuss the letter with students, but those present described his response as evasive and insincere. Kirshner did agree, in a brief e-mail a week later, to keep Quincy community night—but he appears to have missed the point. It wasn’t until a month after his visit?...
...engaged” is something he has never been. Even before his expected return, Kirshner is attempting to retract some of the simple steps that the Gehrkes took to bring House community to Quincy. Kirshner has made it clear to House staff that the popular pool table is an unwelcome addition to the lobby, and expressed hope that it will be removed on the basis that it is “unaesthetic.” The dining hall workers have also, once again, been told that they are to remain in the kitchen...