Word: quaded
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...University-wide facilities, and almost all of the new buildings will include space for teaching undergraduates. Yet there remain concerns about the undergraduate presence in Allston because it could be difficult for students to get there. Harvard College already stretches from Eliot to CGIS and from Mather to the Quad; some argue that spreading the College across the river will simply stretch it too much. Despite the distance, however, we support holding some undergraduate classes in Allston because, in addition to giving undergraduates access to exciting new facilities, doing so will integrate the Allston and Cambridge campuses...
...Harvard Yard remains the center of campus for undergraduates, the Allston campus and Houses will be little more than a satellite, much like the Quad. Integrating the Allston and Cambridge campuses will require students to cross the river on a regular basis. The Allston Houses, athletic facilities, professors’ labs and office hours, and performing arts centers will play an important role in bringing over certain segments of the undergraduate population...
...Houses boasted individual characters based on the social types that dominated their entryways. Varsity athletes perennially comprised large blocs in Kirkland and Mather Houses. Quincy was the Asian house; Adams was "artsy." Most unsettling, though, in the minds of administrators, was the disproportionate number of minority students populating the Quad...
...junior’s room propped open by a hanger.The episode was one of several similar incidents that have taken place over the past several weeks in which strangers have gained access to residential houses.On February 17, a group of local residents crashed a party in the Quad, allegedly causing a fight in Cabot House that resulted in what police described as “blood on the carpet and walls.” The next night, non-Harvard affiliates made their way into Currier House, again allegedly causing a fight to which HUPD officers had to be called...
Recent history makes the UC’s inaction all the more perplexing. Last November, a small number of representatives jammed through legislation that allowed the UC to fund special shuttles from the Quad to Harvard Square on the morning of the Harvard-Yale football game. Despite resistance from gun-shy representatives, the service operated successfully. In January, the UC voted down a proposal to buy back used PRS clickers and re-sell them at cost, to reduce prices for students who end up in courses that require the expensive devices. A number of frustrated UC representatives ultimately...