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...residence for the first time in over 65 years. After stripping off the Chinese tea wallpaper, the university modernized the nine-bedroom, eight-bathroom colonial house. "While we want to make it attractive and beautiful for guests, we want the house to be primarily for the students," says Sean Palfrey, first-year master of Adams. The family room, for the extended Adams House family, holds a welcoming wooden table for weekly dinner talks with members of the senior common room. In addition to ping-pong and pool tables and a TV room, the basement contains a theater prop shop stocked...
Adams House Master Judith Palfrey '67, who is completing her first year as master, say she is hopeful that the current trend is changing...
This new generation will soon become doctors of the future, Palfrey says, and she hopes a similar diversity will appear in academia as well. But Palfrey says she recognizes the transition will take time...
...will literally take decades to move a sufficiently big and strong group of [people of color] through the system," says Palfrey. "We have a process that takes taking decades to build. It is a painfully slow process...
...instance, Palfrey says Houses can make special efforts to hire diverse groups of resident tutors...