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...term vision of putting important student services north of Shepard Street. And the reshufflings that will accompany the Hilles renovation—moving the music library to Lamont and parts of the Social Studies offices to an undetermined location on the river—suggest a countervailing push toward Quad self-sufficiency...
...percent of undergraduates who don’t live in the Quad should be thankful that Gross is not forcing them to take plans for integration too seriously. The Quad is a problem because it is a 15-minute walk from most destinations on campus. If the administration put important College-wide resources there, then everyone would be forced to deal with the inconvenience that is now limited to Quadlings. “If you build it, they won’t necessarily come,” Undergraduate Council President Rohit Chopra ’04 says of the plans...
This week, Summers announced that he is considering both building new undergraduate housing in Allston and converting the Quad to graduate student housing. The President has suggested that relocating undergraduate housing to Allston would help to foster a new community in Allston, as well as allow for increased enrollment and more breathing room for undergrads...
...plan has met with mixed reviews from the Faculty. But if new Houses are built across the river while the Quad still accommodates undergraduates, students may be scattered too widely. “I’m not sure that our students should be dispersed among three different centers, which is what they’d be if some new undergraduate Houses were built in Allston and we maintained the Quad,” says Knowles. “I hope we can have just two main loci for the undergraduate Houses, wherever those...
...College has three options to remedy the segregation of the Quad. The short-term plan is to preserve the Quad and pursue integration. However, this stopgap approach conflicts financially and geographically with the two longer-term strategies. One of Summers’ proposals is to eliminate the Quad and move all undergraduate housing to the river; alternately, the buildings vacated by FAS sciences and the education school could be converted to undergraduate residences close to the Yard. Summers says reconfiguring that space for Houses would be challenging. “It doesn’t appear that there are feasible...