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...undergraduate life task force’s proposal to build three to eight Houses across the River, first reported by The Crimson a month ago, came along with a series of other expected recommendations for the new Allston campus. In addition to this report on undergraduate life, three other reports on sciences, professional schools and culture were also released yesterday...
...critical mass” of at least 25 percent of undergraduates living in Allston Houses will be key to the success of the campus, the undergraduate life report found. The task force also concluded that locating the new Houses along or close to the River is “essential,” making an eventual relocation of some athletic fields likely. The four reports also lay out a detailed series of possible science components for the campus, from a planned stem cell institute to interdisciplinary research on engineering and the “origins of life...
...task force got very excited about the idea,” Hyman said. “Undergraduates kind of give life to everything, and people saw the mutual benefit and the notion of students being closer to each other along the River and being potentially closer to new educational facilities...
...survey found that distance from the Yard dramatically impacts student life. River House residents were more than twice as likely to return to their dorms in the middle of the day as Quad residents. Quad residents are 10 times as likely to take a shuttle to class, while River residents are 50 percent more likely to exercise outdoors...
Quad residents lose an average of seven “close” River House friends over the course of their upperclass years...