Word: quads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Residents of the Quad are grumbling about the unusual coincidence that funding for renovations ran out when and only when the River houses were finished. The issue has fueled longstanding Quad paranoia about shuttle bus schedules, house libraries and the lack thereof, interhouse eating--in sum, about the treatment of Quad residents as second-class Harvard citizens...
...paranoia if they're right. And on the renovations issue, at least, there is a lot of evidence to suggest that the upset Quad residents are right. Quad residents have been bypassed in the renovations process. When they are not ignored, they have been misled. Second-class treatment...
...STORY BEGAN over a decade ago, when house renovations were first envisioned. The Quadrangle was slated for last--then-Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59 explained to a North House audience last year--because more time was needed to raise the funds for the Quad, which needed more extensive renovation...
...advisory committees, but when these met last spring they were told that all the major decisions had already been set in stone. Some of these major decisions were extremely noxious to residents-for instance, the placing of Cabot House's dining hall on North House's edge of the Quad...
HAVING DECIDED that they are not going to fund the full Quadrangle renovations, as promised, College officials are once again toying with Quad residents...