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Knowles wrote that a "likely outcome" of the ongoing space analysis of athletic facilities would be the relocation of the three varsity sports teams that currently practice and play at the MAC and the addition of space within the building for fitness equipment and "perhaps" student group offices...
Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 also wrote that making better use of the MAC's 110,000 square feet was a top priority in his five-year report on the College...
...hassle of staying up to par on the latest laundry technology and the inconvenience of frequently repairing machines that have suffered the brunt of Harvard students' misplaced angst, Harvard subcontracts the operation and maintenance of its laundry facilities to a Cambridge based corporation called Mac-Gray. Mac-Gray provides and services the machines as often as is necessary and, in turn, Mac-Gray collects the profits that the machines generate. However, the money that the machines bring in far exceeds the costs of maintaining them, and therefore Mac-Gray returns a fixed percentage of the revenues generated by Harvard...
Presumably, these returned revenues should be used by the University to pay for the only cost of operating the laundry facilities not covered by Mac-Gray--the cost of the energy and hot water consumption needed to run the machines. However, the checks that Mac-Gray sends to Harvard don't end up at the physical resources department on JFK Street, and they aren't used to settle the university's accounts with the Cambridge Water Department and the Cambridge Electric Light Company...
...money returned by Mac-Gray, its final destination is quite surprising. Because it is not needed to pay the utility bills that students' tuition has already covered, the revenue generated from the Yard dormitories is sent straight from Mac-Gray into the coffers of the Freshman Dean's Office (FDO), while the revenue generated from each House's laundry facilities is sent to its House Committee (HoCo). According to administrators, this action is defensible because the excess money students are charged for laundry is returned to them indirectly through the services that the FDO and the various HoCo's provide...