Word: quaded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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More insidious, though, is differentiation not by attitude but by race or sexual orientation. Despite the alleged pro-diversity effects of non ordered choice, a large percentage of Harvard's Black population lives in the Quad, many Asian-Americans live in Quincy and many openly gay, bisexual and lesbian students flock to Adams and Dunster. The housing system allows self-segregation, and contacts between Blacks and Asians and whites and gays and straights are reduced Whether separation is self-imposed is irrelevant to the ills that it creates. When we have little interaction with those unlike ourselves, basing attitude about...
...absence, several of my co-hosts had disappeared with assorted Women Without Last Names (or so my co-hosts claimed the next morning). Heartbroken that the woman of my dreams had failed to show up at the party--perhaps she was discouraged by the long walk from the Quad, or Mars, or wherever she lives--I took solace in the fact that, at the very least, I had helped bring a few hours of sweaty joy into the lives of a number of people whom I had never seen before...
There are already "no-biking" signs around the Common, but there is currently no law on the books to back them up. The bill pending before the council would add teeth to the signs, effectively making the Common off-limits to bikers--including the many Harvard students (and Quad residents in particular) who cycle through the Common to and from the Yard...
...that's not the whole story. One of the worst things about the Common's playground is that it's located right next to the path that cuts through the Common. This path provides the shortest route for Harvard bikers to commute from the Quad to the Yard...
Perhaps the biggest disadvantage to the 29G residents is the separation for the rest of their class. Those who belittle the inconvenience of 29G point to Quad residents who cope with their distance from the Yard, or portray the Garden Street residents as whiners who are merely trying to milk advantageous housing from their current displacement...