Word: mathering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because the Quad Houses and Mather typically are not chosen by many freshman lottery entrants, they wind up with a random group whose only common trait is their lack of success in the lottery process...
...Mather House Master David Herlihy says he "would quite willingly listen to proposals for modifications" in the current assignment system. Herlihy adds that since Mather is generally a second-choice House, its population tends to be more representative of the College than those Houses filled exclusively by students who wanted to live in them...
...When Mather House residents arrived for classes this year, they found their quarters more than cramped. Some sophomores for example, were so squeezed that they were forced to bunk in storage closets. Wanting to prevent a similar situation from recurring, the College will try again this spring to change the way they allocate housing space...
...part, basically a prediction of how many students in a particular House will decide to take a leave the following year. When those doing the guessing miss the mark--even by a small number--the already crowded Houses suffer. A few years ago, North House got squeezed. This year, Mather got crunched...
While redistributing the crowding throughout the system should ease Mather's burden, officials say the crowding problems will continue unless the total number of students housed on campus is cut. Without really saying so, officials hope to achieve that goal with a new plan to address several related issues--the needs of transfer students, the status of Dudley House, and the desires of off-campus students for adequate advising and other services...