Word: quaded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...QUAD HOUSING IS inferior because people have to be forced to live there. And until people want to live there--that is, select it as their first choice house--inferior it will remain. This is not to say that people are not happy with the Quad or that it cannot be a good place to live. But few would choose to live there without the not-too-invisible hand of the housing lottery...
...paint on the surface but neglecting what lies deeper. What can you complain about once your room is renovated? Cabot House even has entryways now, just like the river. The College has, we will be told, done its best. It is not possible, after all, to move the Quad...
...however, the distance between the Square and Radcliffe Quad cannot be changed, the quality of life there surely can. While river residents enjoy proximity to the Yard and the Square, Quadlings could be compensated with superior facilities and rooms. It's a fair trade, one likely to entice enough students to Quad themselves voluntarily...
...Quad's own private health club, is already a step in the right direction. So is the hamburger option, available only at the Quad. But racketball and beef can't do the trick alone. It will also take substantially more spacious rooms and better shuttle bus service. If buses were to have more direct routes and were to run twice as often as they presently do, the Quad would only be half as far away from the Yard...
...Quad house might, just maybe, actually go first round in the housing lottery...