Word: mathering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thursday night's meeting of more than 70 Mather students with Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59 and Assistant Dean for Housing Thomas A. Dingman '67 may have been an exception. When the student-faculty Committee on Housing (COH) meets next week, it should place overcrowding at the top of its agenda. But while it should make specific recommendations, both students and administrators must come to terms with the general problems of the system...
...these standards, it was determined that Mather is the least flexible of all the Houses, and consequently in two of the last seven years, officials have lowered the ceiling for Mather by 10 students. All this amounts to is reshuffling, after the fact. The same number of students reside in the 12 Houses, only the crowding is shifted around...
...fact, by the calculations of Mather's House Committee, which prepared a fact sheet for Thursday's meeting, the present House system is currently accommodating 14 fewer students than it is theoretically capable of--which means that some Houses are relatively uncrowned while others have very high levels of pain. If accurate, this figure raises serious doubts as to whether the College has enough space to house its students--is University Hall taking as its status quo a situation which students, perhaps quite rightly, consider unacceptable...
...Houses. A common room in Adams House, for example, may be used as a bedroom or a living room system makes. For example, one issues raised at Thursday's meeting included the, but ved because there is not enough space in the bedrooms for more than one person. in Mather House beds were placed in common rooms this year which could not be mo So there is validity to the claim that some Mather students never enjoy use of common rooms. In three years of residence...
...situation was so tight this year that the Mather House masters experienced more than 10 percent attrition, while others, including Mather, had and some students apparently were ready to take matters into their own hands. When some Mather students wanted to transfer to North House, where some empty beds remained, the masters of both Houses were willing. But they were told by the College that it was against College policy, which tries to maintain the ideals of the residential House system, including the sense of identity for three years with one House, with all its facilities, tutorial staff, and fellow...