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When Fereed Mangalji '84 decided to transfer to Harvard from Rice University in Houston last spring, he knew he would not be spending his junior year, in a dorm. Transfer students, the University informed him, were required to live off-campus initially, but could gradually work their way up the priority list and eventually transfer into a House...
These students are not the only ones who feel left out in the cold by recent housing policy changes--and they are not the only ones who have begun to protest. In fact, the ideas that are currently being floated in University Hall to better integrate off-campus residents into the Harvard community may be as much a result of the policy changes made during the last six months as to longwithstanding problems with off-campus living...
Currently, about 430 students--roughly seven percent of the student body--live in apartments or Harvard-owned housing off-campus 90 of these students--those who moved off-campus senior year--remain affiliated with their original Houses, and are for the most part happy with their move. The 340 students affiliated with Dudley House, however, include many transfer students and students from the local area who have been forced to live off-campus as a condition of matriculation...
...have gone so far as to claim that they are Harvard's second class citizens. Many have complained about the logistics of carrying and storing all of their books during the day, while some cited security problems created by the escort service's policy of not taking students to off-campus locations. Most importantly, however, many feel they are missing one of the most important aspects of a Harvard education--interaction with an interesting and eclectic group of peers...
...Those who choose to live off-campus take university life with them. They live on-campus spiritually, even if not physically," says John R. Marquand, senior tutor of Dudley House. "They are still living the 'Harvard experience,' whereas it is harder for people who have never lived on campus like transfer students and (commuting) freshmen...