Word: quads
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After briefly looking through some of your "news" stories about the first-year housing lottery, I was again disappointed with The Crimson. Far be it from The Crimson to actually report reality, but in case you did not know, most residents of the Quad actually enjoy living there. As an alumna of Cabot House, I can say from first-hand experience that rooms in the Quad are very nice, the walk is manageable and the TV reception is significantly better...
...interview you interviewed Sarah Hasking '01. How many times has she been to the Quad? How many rooms has she compared? Please try to obtain better information in the future. TRIN MITRA '96 Cambridge Mass., March...
Well, as a resident Quadling (a Currierite, to be exact), I'll let you into a little secret: You're wrong. You got Quadded? That's cause for celebrating--and I'm not just putting on a brave face to make the best of a bad situation. I maintain that the Quad provides the best housing at Harvard, hands-down, no question about...
...everyone knows, or should know, sophomores in the Quad houses have far better chances of getting singles than their river-dwelling counter-parts. Juniors and seniors are guaranteed them. They're nice singles, too: the rooms in Quad houses range from decent to luxurious, and even the smallest is comparatively spacious. None of your tiny, dingy sophomore quarters or "walk-through" rooms here. (I still remember a Dunster friend's sophomore-year room with a shudder: it was smaller than my closet...
There is, of course, still a lot to be done. In spite of their best efforts, glaring instances of institutional bias remain. A case in point is The Crimson's recent coverage of the Quad. No less than eight different pieces in the 10 days leading up to Spring Break splashed all over the paper--front page, opinions, FM--painted the Quad as a miserable back-of-beyond hellhole, which first-years should resort to voodoo rituals to avoid. There was not one article in defense of the Quad to balance this barrage. I am told that there are many...