Word: quaded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some officials believe the study will substantiate claims that the long-hold practice of distributing overflow House residents evenly among the 12 upper class dorms unfairly crowds a few Houses, while offering relatively luxurious accommodations elsewhere. The Quad dorms and Mather House might emerge as residences with unfair overcrowding, some administrators indicated...
...Houses currently accommodate about 600 more students than the approximately 4500 they were designed for, and the overflow is generally distributed evenly among the 10 Houses at the River and the three at the Radcliffe Quad...
...Quad Crowded...
While varsity athletes were enjoying Briggs and the other new facilities at the Soldiers Field complex, structural problems forced the temporary closure of a recently built facility near the Radcliffe Quad. Radcliffe President Horner closed the doors of the Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center (Q-RAC) before students arrived last fall because water leakage was causing buckling floors in squash courts and bubbles on the epoxy-coated floor of an exercise area. Horner commissioned an extensive study of the problems plaguing the $2.4 million facility which was built in 1978, and kept the Q-RAC closed through the fall. Weather problems...
...meantime, the 1050 residents of Quad Houses were left without an athletic center nearby, until December 1, when Horner agreed to open the large gym, and established weight rooms in the Houses. Questions of legal liability for the water-caused damage have yet to be solved, and repairs will continue into the summer. "We're still holding our breath about the weather." Horner says, "but things should be ready by the fall. I think there's obvious disappointment, but there should be some sense of relief that the building will be forthcoming in a matter of months...