Word: mather
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Toomey's district also includes Mather and Dunster Houses, the Leverett towers, and Peabody Terrace...
Last year vocal Mather House students convinced University officials that the students shouldered an unfair share of the crowding within the House system. An ad hoc CHUL subcommittee studied the situation during the summer and eased that burden by shifting 20 students from Mather to other Houses...
Complaints about crowding are no longer heard from Harvard's newest House. JOhn Baum '78, a Mather student who last year measured the dimensions of his bedroom to prove that they just barely met the minimum requirements of the Cambridge building code, said Thursday that he did not know of any juniors or seniors in Mather who are overcrowded this year. Baum said that he and three roommates have the standard junior suite of four bedrooms and a living room...
Some juniors who expected to have private bedrooms this year were disappointed at the last moment by the exodus of students from Mather. Bob Sullivan '78, a Kirkland House resident who originally planned to share a three-room suite with two other people, wound up with unexpected company in a closet-like bedroom when a Mather sophomore was shuffled over to Kirkland. Desks now control almost all the space in Sullivan's small living room. "We have three desks for four people. I think they have furniture but even if they did we couldn't get it in here," Sullivan...
Spence, the new assistant dean, will also be responsible for a job that used to belong to Bruce Collier, determining house occupancy levels. That task put Collier at the center of a controversy last spring, when Mather House residents felt they were being unfairly crowded, and Collier's move this summer to the financial office of the Faculty came as no great surprise. A budget analyst who received a Stanford MBA this spring (after working several years in the Radcliffe career planning office and in what is now the Office of Graduate Career Planning). Spence has not yet been introduced...