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Quad House email open lists lit up three days ago with the realization that Quadlings’ precious Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center (QRAC) was going under the knife until September. The long-planned renovations, which will convert some exercise space and a basketball court into a new dance studio, stem from student demand for dance practice space as the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study reabsorbs the Rieman Center—the current home of Harvard dancers. Viewed narrowly, the renovations are a victory for dancers and a loss for exercise-hungry Quadlings. Broadly, however, the QRAC’s impending...
...student should be a second-class citizen, but the University’s future plans may be ensuring just that. The QRAC will be out of commission starting April 1, and next semester, Quadlings will return to new, smaller Hilles demi-library, with stacks now occupied by offices and other student space. Both construction initiatives are responding to legitimate and overriding student demands—the need for more student group and dance space is acute—yet together they spell a vast reduction in student services available to Quad residents...
...Both the QRAC and Hilles are regrettably the only outlets that allow the College to plug up space issues quickly. This situation wasn’t inevitable. But thanks to a series of negotiations between the College and Radcliffe that bore no fruit and an overwhelming student group victory in securing cavernous expanses of Hilles, the reality is that Quadlings will be getting a lot more exercise searching for books and free weights from...
Last January, University President Lawrence H. Summers and Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 gave $250,000 to Houses to improve their gyms and allocated $75,000 to go toward new equipment in the Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center (QRAC...
McLoughlin also represented University Hall on the QRAC-Hilles Space committee, formed to make suggestions on how students wish to use the Quad Recreational Athletic Center (QRAC) and Hilles Library in preparation for upcoming renovations. McLoughlin led several focus groups with students and organization leaders in order to drum up ideas for uses of the space the committee could consider...