Word: qrac
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Dates: during 1982-1982
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...center of this confusing situation sits the $2.4 million Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center (QRAC) built by Radcliffe in 1979 to give Quad students a gym closer to their Houses than the Indoor Athletic Building, which lies half mile away. Until this term, everything seemed fine with more than 1000 Quad residents taking full advantage of the Q-RAC's spacious multipurpose gym floor, fully equipped exercise room, and the College's only real racquetball courts...
Quad House masters grew enraged students yelled. President Horner wanted and the QRAC staved shut It is still closed and will remain so until recently begun repairs are completed While that preliminary for opening may not occur for another few weeks, students and University officials should be looking at the many QRAC problems that have nothing to do with digging new drains or fixing leaks but rather threaten more than just the future of a building...
...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...