Word: pains
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...several of his visitors have left with the impression that Collier is snowing them under with statistics, formulas, pain indices, ideal capacities, crowding quotients and everything else he uses to prove that crowding is equally distributed among all the Houses...
Last week the Mather Memo, the House newspaper, charged that Collier's method of determining the "pain factor" (the relative pain caused by crowding in each House) as the amount of floor space per capita illustrates that he is "totally divorced from the reality of the housing situation." The Memo editors were not swayed by Collier's explanations, calling them "the reasoning of a functional moron...
This method, passed by CHUL last year, requires that Collier determine a "pain factor" for each House based primarily on the average amount of room space available in each House. After setting the relative discomfort caused by crowding in each House, Collier is then to set the quota of students assigned to each House in order to equalize crowding in all Houses...
...Collier has worked out the pain formula is unfair to certain Houses," Katherine Fulton '78, CHUL representative from Winthrop House, said yesterday...
...Bains '77, CHUL representative from Kirkland House, said yesterday he will introduce a motion at the next CHUL meeting asking Collier "to reconsider the pain factor and devise a system that is more equitable to all the Houses...