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When Fox announced the plan in January 1977, he highlighted five salient problems with the system—the inequities between Houses’ locations and gender distributions, the unpopularity of the Quad Houses, the differences in housing and advising between first-years, some upperclass students’ distance from their Houses and unfair lottery procedures...
...addition, major construction on the Quad began in order to normalize the experience from House to House. And by instituting a “limited-choice” system where students could list their three top House choices, the plan would minimize the random selection of students sent to unpopular Houses...
...Crimson editorialized against the plan, calling it “singular in its lack of sensitivity for the Quad point of view” and arguing that four-year housing, a lower male to female ratio, and “an alternative for many to the overbearing, ‘old Harvard’ atmosphere of the River Houses” presented valuable options for first-years...
Radcliffe’s other location was the Quad, where all the dormitories were and where field hockey was played. Each dormitory had a housemother who was omnipresent throughout the first floor, which consisted of a dining room, living room and a couple of entertaining rooms for more intimate gatherings. There were no closed doors on the first level and no men were allowed above the first floor. Gentlemen callers were announced by telephone upstairs (there was one telephone on each floor). When women entertained men in the dormitory, the rule was that ladies kept both feet on the floor...
...Wolbach gutting is part of a number of renovations taking place this summer in the Houses. Overflow rooms in Jordan Hall will also be gutted and the shared kitchen area for all three Quad Houses will be renovated. Renovations to Dunster, Eliot, Kirkland and Mather Houses are also planned for this summer...