Word: quaded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...center of this confusing situation sits the $2.4 million Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center (QRAC) built by Radcliffe in 1979 to give Quad students a gym closer to their Houses than the Indoor Athletic Building, which lies half mile away. Until this term, everything seemed fine with more than 1000 Quad residents taking full advantage of the Q-RAC's spacious multipurpose gym floor, fully equipped exercise room, and the College's only real racquetball courts...
...Quad House masters grew enraged students yelled. President Horner wanted and the QRAC staved shut It is still closed and will remain so until recently begun repairs are completed While that preliminary for opening may not occur for another few weeks, students and University officials should be looking at the many QRAC problems that have nothing to do with digging new drains or fixing leaks but rather threaten more than just the future of a building...
...addition to the substantive recommendations for easing the crowding situation and additional construction, the committee may recommend a laundry list of smaller items aimed at better integrating the Quad into College life. The Social Studies Department occupies space in Hilles Library as a result of the first Comprehensive plan, and other offices recently moved to the Quad; masters are calling for further moves along this line. Hastings's pet project is the creation of a bike path to the Quad; "It would make a difference." And Hershbach wouldn't mind a swimming pool, "but I don't know...
...general sentiment seems to be that an intense capital investment in the Quad in the near future would work wonders. And the committee may have some leverage in asking for construction work because of the College's current $50 million renovation of the aging Houses which will barely affect the Quad. "There's an opportunity to do something that would make a big difference in life here," Woodland Hastings says directly...
...issue of particular concern to masters--the need for more Quad publicity for freshmen--is an area in particular need of student input. North House Committee Chairman James Polsfut '83 says a modification of Yale University's four-year colleges might be appropriate. Instead of assigning freshmen to a House for their upperclass years like at Yale. Polsfut suggests giving freshmen temporary House assignments at various intervals during the first year. By attending functions at their temporary House, freshmen can familiarize themselves with the Houses, and South House Committee Chairman Scott Goidel '83 says, "Freshmen can maybe find out that...