Word: overflow
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...interview on Friday, Gross restated that Mass. Hall’s incarnation as a freshman dorm is likely at an end. Instead, he said, the residential part of the 286-year-old building will probably be used for overflow and emergency housing for upperclassmen...
...current undergraduates, the Yard is seen as the exclusive residential domain of freshmen, with students moving into one of 12 Houses after their first year. Harvard currently places some upperclassmen in overflow housing outside of their assigned House, but all of those residences are located outside the Yard...
...Gross suggested that those overflow residences—including Jordan, Claverly, and DeWolfe—may not be enough for next year...
...having the experience of staying with someone who is familiar with the community lets them see if the atmosphere is something they think would be important.” Perhaps the phone-a-thons were a little too successful. Cultural groups on campus have been struggling to handle an overflow of requests for minority hosts. An Association of Black Harvard Women list e-mail asks, “Wanna host a ***black*** prefrosh???”—all six asterisks included. Another, sent over the Chinese Students Association (CSA) mailing list, reads: “URGENT: PLEASE HOST...
...famously tight-knit dorm community. The College has yet to articulate a good reason to evict freshmen from the top floors. Formal plans for the use of the space next year remain foggy, and Gross has said that it might still be used for emergency or upperclassmen overflow housing. Others speculate that it might be used to house the expanding offices of the president and provost. Whatever the plans, the University should think long and hard about whether the extra two floors of offices or overflow housing could be found elsewhere. In the case of Mass. Hall, the tradition...