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...population of the Houses cannot be reduced, the solution is then to increase the available space. The dilapidated Jordan complex, which serves as overflow housing for Pforzheimer and Cabot Houses, should be renovated so that the quality of its housing will be comparable to the rest of the College's living spaces. There are currently several unused rooms in Jordan simply because it is viewed as so unattractive. Renovations of Jordan would provide for full use of its housing space. Furthermore, another floor could easily be added. The students slated to be assigned to the new, cramped Wolbach would probably...
Another option would be to open up more space for students in the overflow River housing of the DeWolfe and Claverley complexes. Much of this space is currently occupied by faculty. Yet Faculty have access to cars and can easily live off-campus--undergraduates cannot. It makes more sense for this prime campus space to be occupied by students and to assign faculty to subsidized housing more removed from the heart of Harvard. Converting these buildings into spaces wholly devoted to student living and folding them into the existing House system would also end their status as ambiguous halfway houses...
...standing on or past it, bodies tightly pressed against one another, filling buses over capacity. Nor would it be unusual if you hadn't noticed the sign warning passengers of the line, often blocked from view by students who have turned the wide dashboard of a bus into an overflow seating area. Indeed, if you rode a shuttle bus every morning, it wouldn't be unusual if hadn't noticed Harvard taking any concern for student safety...
...order to meet the needs of increasingly savvy consumers of higher education (for whom suites with one less bedroom than the number of occupants are declasse), the College already has looked into expanding the size of its "overflow" housing in DeWolfe, pondered the feasibility of building a 13th House, and even hired a consultant to figure out if current space in the Houses is being used efficiently...
...size of its entering class, it must either obtain additional apartment space, expand existing Houses or build a thirteenth House. The latter, though expensive, would at least avoid increasing the size of the already large Houses and further compromising the sense of community within them. Adding more beds to overflow housing like the DeWolfe complex does not address the underlying problem of crowding; it only shuffles students around. Another proposal noted in the report, to encourage 100 more students to take a semester or year abroad, is even more fanciful. Harvard already balances students leaving to study abroad with transfer...