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...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...
...four children are crammed into an 8 m by 5 m shack located in the middle of a mosquito-infested mangrove swamp. Around them is a garbage tip of old tyres, tins and broken-up asbestos sheeting; human waste fills a network of stinking open drains that regularly overflow during high tide. Kumar and his wife bring in about $80 a week; a relative cares for the children, who do their homework by candlelight. "We only eat meat once a week," he says, while cooking on a smoky outdoor hearth. "Sometimes all we have to eat is rice...
...don’t plan to use Mass. Hall as a freshman dorm next year,” Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 said in an e-mailed statement yesterday, adding that the space might still be used for emergency or overflow housing. In an interview last week, Gross said the 287-year-old building had outlived its usefulness as a dormitory...
Nelson added that Leverett was a fitting choice for DeWolfe space because of the House’s proximity to the overflow dorms...
...issues such as health care, veteran benefits, global warming and the plight of Katrina victims still living in trailers. She also criticized the state of current voting rights and the position of the nation on the world's stage. A crowd of about 750 crowded into the church, with overflow watching a video screen in the basement. "It's time to take it back," said Clinton referring to our national standing...