Word: overflows
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Occupation, a student-made documentary chronicling the Mass. Hall sit-in, premiered to an overflow crowd at the Harvard Film Archive...
Nine months after Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles announced that the residential capacity of Pforzheimer House’s Wolbach building could be expanded, Dingman confirmed that between Wolbach and the Jordans, overflow housing for Quad students will house more students after renovations this summer...
...maybe it was. DeWolfe is overflow housing. Like other buildings with a similar function—Jordan and Claverly Hall, for example—DeWolfe brings together students exiled from a variety of Houses that do not have enough room for all affiliates to live onsite. With full kitchens, cable television and underground parking for those with cars, DeWolfe apartments are a considered by many to be a sweet deal; DeWolfe is not the Jordan “projects” by any stretch of the imagination. But the problems of overflow housing still affect residents of DeWolfe. Many students...
This situation is far from desirable. Overflow housing undermines the premise on which Harvard’s House system was founded—the idea that the College should provide close-knit residential communities in which students and scholars can live and work together for an extended period of time. Thus, administrators should be interested in eliminating not just overcrowding, but overflowing as well...
...these students, DeWolfe is not a good fit and it never will be. An isolated block of six apartments in DeWolfe can never mimic the intimacy and tradition that living within an actual House provides. Making DeWolfe housing purely elective will end the days of forcing Harvard students into overflow when a traditional House setting is what they desire and what they’ve been promised...