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Official housing assignments were delivered in the morning, after a prank e-mail sent out to all freshmen caused false alarm the night before. The e-mail assigned students to the Quad or overflow housing, asking that they direct complaints to the “housing office”—and listed the phone number for The Crimson newsroom...
...course, pre-assignment is no magical tonic that will cure all undergraduate life woes. For one thing, disparities in the distance between the Yard and individual Houses would complicate the integration of freshmen into farther a field Houses, like Mather and the Quad. But such drawbacks could be easily mitigated by minor details in a pre-assignment policy. For example, peer advisers would be given access to Annenberg, and would be expected to have meals and interactions with their advisees in the Yard. And when it comes to special House events, the draw of an excellent speaker or of Stein...
...they are. The ensuing death threats, riots, murders and laying siege to embassies, leave most of us confused and appalled,” he wrote. A coalition of more than 15 organizations and community members at the university held a peaceful demonstration on the campus’s main quad in response to the cartoons, prompting the board of directors of Illini Media, the company which owns the newspaper, to suspend Gorton and Prochaska. Prochaska could not be reached for comment this weekend, but according to a Chronicle of Higher Education report, Prochaska was invited to return to the paper...
This year, the College introduced neighborhood blocking. Blocking groups were able to link with other groups to ensure that the two would be in nearby houses. The innovation is a clever way to prevent the Quad-River split between friends in different blocking groups that so many first-years fear, and it addresses the needs of friends who are close, but not quite close enough to enter the House lottery together. Thanks to linking, blocking this year has been a bit easier...
Whether you’ve been plopped down by the Square, sent northwest to the frontier that is the Quad or exiled to the far east that is Mather and Dunster, today, you’ve been blessed with a home. You may not be in the House of your dreams—the House that hot upperclassman you’ve been spying on lives in, or the House that’s closest to your favorite coffee shop—but a House is better than no House. You are no longer the houseless freshman you were yesterday...