Word: quaded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worst of it was the jackhammers," said North tutor Barbara Alexander last spring. "Waking up at 7 a.m. in the morning to jackhammers going" and a notorious mud "Quad Mound" at the center of construction made life difficult, but not unbearable, said North House committee chair Thomas B. Mitevski...
...People weren't choosing to go to the Quad," said Mortimer, who helped direct the renovations. "If we could find some way to increase the amenities in the Quad," he recalled thinking, the image of the houses might change. The result was big common spaces and a balance of singles and suites. "The only thing we couldn't do anything about was the perceived disadvantage of distance...
...most who were randomed into the Quad in earlier years, its new-found popularity arrives as a "shock," said Mitevski. "It reflects a change not inherently but in the way people perceive the Quad...
According to Parsons, that was the goal. Since Radcliffe days dating to the late 1960s, the Quad houses' cold singles off of hallways--intended to preserve the purity of its all-women residents--made living there experiments in social deprivation...
...People had felt isolated at the Quad," Parsons said...