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...flood of Biblical proportions were to lay waste to New Orleans, Joe Suhayda has a good idea how it would happen. A Category 5 hurricane would come barreling out of the Gulf of Mexico. It would cause Lake Pontchartrain, north of New Orleans, to overflow, pouring down millions of gallons of water on the city. Then things would really get ugly. Evacuation routes would be blocked. Buildings would collapse. Chemicals and hazardous waste would dissolve, turning the floodwaters into a lethal soup. In the end, what was left of the city might not be worth saving. "There's concern...
...DeWolfe: 1. Conveniently located overflow housing for students in various river houses. Comes complete with MTV, dishwasher, refrigerator, bathtub and bay windows. 2. You and everyone else will subsidize these luxury condominiums by suffering in cockroach-infested, cramped doubles when you're sophomores...
With House space concerns already forcing some students into three of Harvard's overflow structures, the College needs all the room it can get to house undergraduates. "The Jordans are at the top of our list for facility improvement in Pforzheimer House," Pforzheimer Masters James J. and M. Suzanne McCarthy write in an e-mail message...
...kitchens and common rooms--into suites and bedrooms. "If you redesigned it well, the Jordans could probably accommodate 80 to 90 people," Ware says--as opposed to the approximately 50 people who live there now. Currier House Master William A. Graham says the Jordans have done their job as overflow housing. But given the Houses' space crunch and the Jordans' wasted space, they may not be doing enough...
...overflow space in the face of the lamentable overcrowding that all Houses in the College have to endure, they have served a much needed stopgap purpose at least," Graham writes in an e-mail message. "Of course, few of us want the need for such stopgap measures to continue...