Word: quaded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...than-hot for average GPA; Lowell House is great for Phi Beta Kappa membership and less-than-hot for parties. Adams House's Westmorcty Court and Senior House are splendid and supremely spacious places to live; Mather's low-rise--at least this year--is not. Living at the Quad and having to take a bus to classes is a pain...
While Goss moved away from the Quad, successful transfer Catherine L. Niehauer '84, '86 went the other way. She said she left Eliot for her second-choice North House because "my rooming situation wasn't the best, and because I wanted to be near most of my old friends who were at the Quad...
AMID ALL THE controversy about housing lotteries and Quad renovations, there is a group of about 60 undergraduates who couldn't care less...
...witnessed rooming groups break up over the decision of which House to pick first. Since freshmen believe that each House is very different from the others, they are overly concerned about getting into the House that best suits them. Moreover, the lottery overemphasizes the perceived disparity between river and Quad houses and the importance of the results. Random House assignment could minimize this anxiety and free freshmen from what is a time consuming and unproductive concern...
...random lottery will not only fail to solve the fundamental problem, that concerning the Quad Houses, but it will also drain the Houses of much of their existing character. The diversity the pro-random forces so crave is already here, just not at every dinner table. Letting people choose where they want to live makes residential dorms not just houses but homes...