Word: quads
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Amid confetti, band music, and lingering doubts about the future of the Radcliffe Quad renovations, Cabot House's newly remodelled Briggs Hall opened its doors yesterday to hundreds of cheering students and all the University's big brass...
...Briggs facelift is the first step in the $27 million proposed Quad renovation project. But in the face of escalating costs and doubts about where future millions will come from, it is unclear how many other Quad buildings will share Briggs's magic transformation. Harvard plans to spend another $15 million on the other two Quad houses, but officials have said that money may not buy the level of luxury originally promised...
When they were considering renovations to the Quad, Harvard officials said they didn't want to do half a job on the old Radcliffe buildings, preferring to accumulate more money to "do things right by doing it all at once," according to North House Master J. Woodland Hastings. But in nine months, after the renovation of Barnard and Bertram Halls, Harvard will be out of money for North and Cabot Houses. Plans to integrate the six southernmost Radcliffe buildings into a real House will have fallen by the wayside. Maybe three renovated buildings will make the Quad half as nice...
...what about the long-awaited Quad Central Station kitchen? Harvard has maintained that it can afford to debt-finance this project because, with only one kitchen, it can fire lots of dining hall workers. But what about the habitrail-like arcade system that was supposed to link the six Cabot House buildings to the new dining hall? Will Briggs, Barnard and Bertram be hooked up to the dining hall while the three other dorms stand alone...
Hopefully, the end of renovations will not mean the end of the five large speed bumps along the driveway out of the Quad Alley. Oh, sure, driving a low-riding car over them can be killers on your axles, not to mention your muffler. But they slow down the shuttle so you can catch up to it if you miss its departure, and the bumps make an otherwise-dull bicycle ride a fun-filled adventure...