Word: quads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Separating fact from fiction about life in the upperclass houses is one of the most challenging parts of moving out of Harvard Yard. What will it really be like to live with juniors and seniors? Does the Quad provide the most diversified living arrangements on campus? How true are the stereotypes...
...diversity. The House has an exciting mix of creative, active students and a lively tutorial and house staff...The physical facilities may soon be the best on campus (with a little luck and funding). Other favorites mentioned: the rollomatic toaster, movie nights with the VCR, good parties, and the Quad roofs and grounds as "beaches" in the spring...
...perennial Quad complaints still apply: that brisk walk to the Yard in the morning and breathing-optional rides in the shuttle bus During the renovations, the house may be in various levels of disarray. However, the conditions in buildings like Eliot (euphemistically called a dorm with "character") make the mess worthwhile. Students also cited "Lake Barnard" during rainstorms, the inevitable "Quad Moat" after rainstorms, a current wide disparity of housing, shuttle bus speed bumps, and a less-than-stellar salad...
...Sometimes our constant questions cause friction between groups within the house. But worse...stigma--we have to prove ourselves because the University institutions--including this paper--treat the Quad as inferior. It's a constant battle with a reputation which the administration, organizations, and non-Quadlings perpetuate...
...Under the new system, people were much betterinformed about the houses," said UndergraduateCouncil member Robert H. Greenstein '89, the otherfreshman who oversaw the computer assignments."People were actually traveling out to MatherHouse and the Quad" to get information abouthouses, he said...