Word: qrac
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...troubles started in September of last year, when officials first detected problems in the QRAC that were more than just those that might be expected. These unusual problems darkened floors on some of the squash courts, some leaks and cracks where others had been patched should have suggested more structural problems Harvard which oversees the maintenance of all Radcliffe owned property in the Quad, patched the cracks and took note of the darkened floors...
Because they passed day to day operation of the QRAC to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 1979 Radcliffe officials didn't think they had to worry about QRAC's problems...
...THAT POINT new players arrived Radcliffe called in an outside consultant to find out what was wrong and how to fix it, but told the consultant to wait until the summer to do his testing so as not to disrupt use of the gym. Horner then told Harvard's QRAC Management Committee about the problems. She also told President Bok and Dean Rosovsky both of whom sit on the joint committee that decides matters affecting the two institutions. Everyone agreed to have the consultants go ahead with the testing and work under the presumption that any repairs would be completed...
...summer. It was just completed last month. And then the consultants needed more time than they expected to finish their damage report, which they ultimately submitted six weeks late. Horner had pledged not to take any vacation on the gym until she received the report so the QRAC remained closed...
...right Horner might have done more than she did to demonstrate her concern. She could have offered to help students secure compensation for the loss of the gym which they have been attempting to do through the Harvard committee over the past few weeks by relocating some of the QRAC's weight equipment and getting hold of funds accumulated through the building's non-operation But realistically. Horner feels, it was not her responsibility to deal with any communications gaps that may have arisen when Dingman or others at the Harvard end of things failed to advertise the QRAC saga...