Word: quaded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike many administrators, who guard theirhome addresses and phone numbers carefully,Jewett's home phone number at 48A Linnean St. islisted in the student directory. Few otheradministrators have as keen an understanding ofthe the problems unique to Quad residents asJewett does. From his home on Faculty Row, he canhear the noise of the Quad renovations and hiscommute to work consists of a ride on the shuttlebus. "Living on campus has helped me to do my jobbetter because I have contact [with students]outside the office," he says...
...years ago, the shuttle only ran from the Quad to Garden Street and back. It was fast and efficient in moving people. Now it runs through one-way streets halfway to Somerville every 15 minutes and all the way into Allston every few hours. The closest it gets to Harvard Square on a run to the Quad is Lamont Library. And the schedule is more complicated than diagrams for assembling a Pakistani satellite dish...
...shuttle should run from the Quad to Garden Street and back--every five minutes. No schedule would be necessary. So far, at least, Cambridge has not been able to ban the Old Burying Ground stop, which could be the pickup and drop off stop for this run. The buses would truly shuttle passengers back and forth from the Quad...
...Kennedy School, for one thing, would be a thing of the past. God only knows where Kennedy School students take the shuttle bus. To the Square? Who would rather wait for a shuttle than walk three blocks? To the B-School? Also not very far. To the Quad? The way the shuttle system is set up now, a journey from the K-School to Currier House can take up to 42 minutes, not including waiting time...
Harvard is unlikely to eliminate stops at the B-School and K-School because these faculties help to pay the shuttle's annual budget. But in the interest of efficiency and making life at the Quad more pleasant, the College should shell out the extra few thousand bucks it would take each year. After all, who wants to live in wonderful suites in the suburbs if you can't get to them...