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...Fifteen Minutes (FM): Welcome back to Currier. How did you feel about being “quadded?? when you received your housing letter freshman spring? Lindsey E. Gary ’06: (LEG): Actually as a freshman, I lived in Greenough—our whole blocking group did—and when we found out we were in Currier House, we just felt like the fates of Harvard were against us. We were always pushed to the extremities of the campus. But we soon learned that the other people who were also in Currier House were...
There are already concerns about housing inequity on campus, as many students dread being “Quadded?? when Housing Day comes around. The last thing we need is to add a fear for their own safety into the life of Quad students. The shuttle cuts create substantial dangers during the nighttime and inconvenience at all hours. In reaction to the outrage over these shuttle cuts during the town-hall meetings, the administration promised to reevaluate the plan. We hope they follow through and repeal this dangerous decision...
...globs of glitter glue, the behavior is bizarre: housing is completely arbitrary and most definitely unequal across the board. The obligatory River Run many freshman blocking groups take part in on the eve of the lottery announcements in order to ward off chances of being “Quadded?? (put in one of the three Houses a ways up Garden Street) is testament to this. (The next day of course, they’re all smiles as they’re welcomed to their new home of Pforzheimer House). Pride in your House assignment, one might...
While freshmen this year fretted over getting “Quadded?? on Housing Day, residents of the Yard in the year 2027 may well face the prospect of getting “Allston-ed” when they tear open their envelopes...
...simian mascots romped through the hall, upperclassmen hoisted the colors and insignia of the armigerous Houses on banners, mouthing improvised panegyrics to their residences with unbridled enthusiasm. The privileged freshmen placed in Eliot or Adams undoubtedly interspersed their justified excitement with sighs of relief, as those “Quadded?? unfortunates concealed their profound disappointment with airy-fairy promises of “community.” On Housing Day, there is seemingly no sadness—there is only the comfort and contentment of knowing your next three years will be spent alongside House-mates similarly imbued...