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...surface, housing is perhaps the most irritating of these difficulties. Although University housing cases the alienation of some foreign students, the number who live in such housing is surprising small. About three quarters of the students live "off-campus", primarily in isolated apartments, and often have no American contacts. If the foreign student is accepted to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences later than May, it is too late for him to apply to either the graduate dormitories or to the Harvard Housing projects, and he must search for an apartment...
...off-campus leaders complained that the plan handicaps a girl in choosing a house and limits the number of friends she will make. "I'm glad I'm a senior this year," said Helen N. Smith '63, president of Henry House. "People move off-campus to get away from the house spirit, and now it's following us." She said that it will be unfortunate if the residents of Henry House are drawn in the future only from East House dormitories...
President Patricia C. Jones '64 of Warner House stressed the difficulties involved for students who will have to change their current House affiliation. At present, an off-campus student retains an affiliation with the brick dormitory from which she moved. Miss Jones said that the plan will handicap a girl who has friends in a dormitory that is not part of the House in which she must eat. She pointed out, however, that the change in policy will become a dead issue within a few years, when the living facilities of the off-campus houses are replaced by those...
Other Radcliffe students also expressed opposition to the new policy, which will become effective in September. Former RGA treasurer Betty Change '65 suggested that the off-campus houses be affiliated with the House centers without limiting the number of halls for which a student may obtain room choice priority. Anne J. d'Harnoncourt, president of Holmes Hall, said that the plan would divide the college into rigid groups along House lines...
Although students will get first preference only in applying to off-campus houses affiliated with their House center. Mrs. Mattfeld emphasized that this will not necessarily prevent them from living in other off-campus houses...