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...this reason, the Radcliffe administration's recent announcement (Jan. 8 issue). that it is eliminating four more off-campus houses, was probably greeted at Harvard with a reaction bordering on apathy. At Radcliffe, however, the announcement brought rage frustration, and a certain amount of defeatism-after all, it is the continuance of a trend toward "dormitization" which no student protest has been able to halt or even slow down in the face of President Bunting's cheerful determination to make Radcliffe's students choose between dormitory life or "off-off" apartment living. With the former, students can opt for institutional...
...fairness to the Radcliffe administration, one must say that its decision was motivated by quite legitimate financial reasons. With each off-campus house involved there were real problems: the lease had expired in most cases, and the houses were either too expensive to buy or too dilapidated to make them financially justifiable for either purchase or another five-year lease, particularly when the Radcliffe housing situation is in such a state of flux...
Radeliffe will close four off-campus houses at the end of the year...
Avon, Could, Gray, and Henry Houses will be closed, dislodging 40 students. Seven off-campus houses will continue to provide off-campus living for about 135 students...
Several Radeliffe students were angry at the decision to close the four off-campus houses. One girl remarked, "I think it's terrible; it's the only decent way to live at Radeliffe." Another tenmed it "ridiculous," claiming that Radcliffe did not need to save the money...