Word: quaded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During freshman year, you think you know where you want to live. You list that house, get assigned to that house, but everything isn't as expected. So, you file an application to transfer. While most people may think that the average transfer applicant is seeking refuge from the Quad, reasons for transferring vary from looking for different living situations to different friends. And some students actually ask to transfer from the river to what they perceive as the better life at the Quad...
Fifteen students, all juniors, opted to transfer to a new house this semester. Among these, transfers to the Quad are not as uncommon as people might think. While the housing office refuses to give out information about which houses are most popular for transfers, Sharon Morrow, assistant to the master in North House, says that this year the Quad house had more people move in than left for another house...
...says freshman year he had planned to block with a large group of friends who wanted Kirkland. At the last minute, Mooney and his roommate chose not to block with the high-risk group and selected Eliot. While the two got into Eliot, all their friends moved to the Quad...
...with me and she grinned as she slipped her arm through mine. As we walked along together, I suddenly knew that there was a very concrete reason for my participation in this apparently futile demonstration. I wanted my roommate to feel safe as she came back from the Quad or returned books to a library late at night. I wanted her to be able to go anywhere at any time without fear. And I wanted that same freedom of movement for myself...
...SETTING was Cambridge, Mass., the year 1970. With student protest calming down after the violent '69 takeover of University Hall, the establishment made a radical move of its own: It decided that the boys could live with the girls at the Radcliffe Quad and the girls could join the boys down by the River...