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Proximity is of such fundamental importance at Harvard that student groups will prefer working out of Yard and river dorm rooms irrespective of the quality of facilities at the Quad. Not even a Quad chateau could mitigate the horrors of a ten-minute trek on a cold winter day with inconvenient shuttle times. And to think it has been a warm winter. What happens when we get a blizzard...
Perhaps Hilles is an unsuccessful experiment, but all is not lost. Within a reasonable number of years, the undergrad facilities and residential housing at the Quad will be transferred to Allston, and graduate students will be Linnaean Street’s new denizens. Administrators have another chance, and should bear the lessons of Hilles in mind when planning their vision for undergrad life in the future: They should avoid the mistake of disregarding Allston’s similarly remote location...
...moment of bipartisanship, Nelson said that the SOCH’s distance from the Yard also affected the Dems’ willingness to use it. “We, unfortunately, hardly ever use Hilles. The reason, of course, is the fear that moving most of our events to the Quad would cannibalize participation from freshmen and River upperclassmen.” McLoughlin wrote that overcoming the mental obstacle of the trip to the Quad would be largely up to students themselves. “I have to admit that I find it puzzling as to why students never complain about...
Matthew S. Meisel ’07 Editorial chair Now that Harvard has official plans to house undergrads in Allston, the Quad will secede from the University and be annexed by Canada. Curling, anyone...
...move forward, however, ensuring a positive undergraduate experience must remain one of the University’s top priorities. In the first phase of Allston development, Harvard plans to build four new undergraduate houses in the “northwest” development near current athletic facilities to which Quad residents would be relocated. The decision to build four houses is essential, as only a critical mass of students in the new houses will obviate these students’ sense of alienation from their classmates. If the reason for developing the houses near the athletic fields rather than...